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Reaching Street, we are in 'company town', a town dominated by the shoe makers C and J Clark. It is therefore appropriate that we start at Clark's original factory, which fronts High Street.

The curious onion-domed extension to the Town Hall, between it and the church has long been demolished, but it serves to point up the quality of Alfred Waterhouse's 1875 Town Hall.

A horse-drawn cart carrying sacks makes its way up alongside Brackley's early 18th-century Town Hall, which was built for the Duke of Bridgewater and is attributed to Wren.

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar’s.

The timber market cross dominates the photograph; to its left is the King's Head with its tile hanging and timbering, a finely-detailed town pub of 1899 by Shoebridge and Rising.

Looking down Ropergate towards the Market Place, on the left we see the old Crescent Cinema (1926-1993), one of five picture palaces once in the town.

The photographer was positioned on Moor Street looking down towards the Town Gate.

East of the town, on the Louth Road, is Lincolnshire's only racecourse, since Lincoln's closed some years ago.

The grand scale and decorated gables of the Institute are a visible reminder of a wealthier town; here the iron-works acted as a magnet which drew workers in high numbers.

This Cotswold town has much in common with other old wool towns to the north and south of it, such as Chipping Campden and Cirencester.

Standing at the cross-roads in the centre of the town is the clock tower, which was erected by public subscription in 1876.

The town of Kingston was awarded County Town status in 1893, which it retained even after becoming a London Borough in 1964.

Other members of the family also lived in large houses in the town.

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

These civic gardens are in the Trenance Valley and fringe the River Gannel as it twists away from the eastern edge of the town.

This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

Opened in 1863, it closed in 1926 when a new station for the town was opened to the rear of the town. Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

Boston's Tudor decline was steep: the wool trade upon which the town had waxed fat faded away, and the river silted up.

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

Bala`s elegant main street is lined with trees and is unusually broad. This traditional market town was famous for its stocking fairs.

They founded their town of Corinium by the River Churn, in an area occupied by a native tribe called Dobunni.

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

Following the New Towns Act of 1964, 37 farms and 7,500 acres of land were taken over and absorbed as the new town developed.