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The expansive market place has long been the commercial hub of the town. On market days it echoes Yarmouth's seafaring traditions, the colourful awnings stretching out like waves to the horizon.

FOR MANY YEARS, after the decline of the weaving industry, the manufacture of rubber linked the two West Wiltshire towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham.

Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards

A fishing settlement existed here from early times, the town being burnt by French raiders during the reign of Richard II.

Until relatively recent times, the sea was a vital artery for supplying the town. In late summer the pilchard shoals would arrive and the town was a bustle of small boats.

The marketplace here was probably laid out in the 13th century, and some of the buildings in the Old Town are 17th-century.

Just off Main Road, Junction Road lies sufficiently distant from the hubbub of the market and town centre to provide a tranquil setting for tasteful town villas.

Parks were an important feature in many Victorian industrial towns and served as an escape from the noise, dirt and labour of the mills and factories.

As the railway did not arrive until 1874, the town remained unspoilt by mass tourism, especially as the beach was shingle.

Forever associated with its famous International Eisteddfod, Llangollen stands on the River Dee, seen here from the four-arched town bridge.

The wide sweep of cobbles and double avenue of trees defines this characteristic view on entering the town from the west.

Burnley was one of the few towns where steam trams were employed after the horse buses and before the electric trams that the corporation introduced in the early 1900s.

Simultaneous construction of the castle and town wall began in the summer of 1283. The wall, which enclosed the medieval borough, is 800 yds long with eight towers and two twin-towered gateways.

Since 1958 when the first shops began opening, Basildon town centre has been the home for a whole host of differing consumer needs.

'A township, parochial chapelry, market town, corporate and parliamentary borough', was how Clitheroe was described in 1840.

This was a bold statement of the strength of non-conformity in the town; at 182 feet, it outshone the seemingly insignificant towers of the parish churches.

What an unusual combination of goods the trader is selling in the third shop from the right: fishing tackle and fireworks! Today this large town by the River Medway looks very different.

Jarrow's seven-acre pedestrian shopping precinct opened for business in February 1961; it was all part of a grand scheme to rid the town of its cloth cap image and to drag it into the modern age.

This vast open Market Hall was constructed in 1875, and the roof, carried on elaborately decorated cast-iron pillars and supports, covers an area of some 3,500 square yards.

This view emphasises the rather stern aspect of the town. Its major attraction is the Oldersfleet Castle ruins, near Curran Point and the harbour.

By this time, calico-printing was losing its position as the town's main industry, and the production of porcelain sanitary ware was taking over.

Whilst the open fields still surrounded Loughborough the town could not expand; later they were enclosed by law and the pattern of small fields emerged.

The town's name is pronounced 'Lemster' and this is how the word was sometimes spelt on old milestones.

The new railway led to the area around Alexandra Road, the land sold by the Coopers, being developed into what was known as the 'New Town'.