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Until the 1950s Middle Mill Weir occupied the centre of this view, but the bridge over the weir remains as an important pedestrian link to the sportsfields and parks on the north bank of the River.

Folkestone has been a channel port since Saxon times, and France is visible from here on clear days. The Old Town is based around the steep narrow streets of the fishing harbour.

In the days of horse-drawn travel, Fairford was an important coaching town that straddled the important road leading to the capital from the south-west.

The small boy on the left is leaning against the wall which formerly enclosed three acres of grounds belonging to the White Hart Hotel, but now occupied by a nondescript block of shops and offices.

In the 1950s seaside towns had a revival, and were often very crowded. Hired deckchairs occupy much of the space on the beach.

The ornate, ballustraded Tone Libraries shop on the right was built onto the front of the old Swan Inn in 1907, and the Town Mills continued operating in the street until 1969.

The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town.

The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time. Hardy was fond of sitting in the Minster with only the organist and his music for company.

Market Drayton stands on a hill-top site overlooking the River Tern, which flows in the foreground of this photograph, and the settlement probably originated in prehistoric times.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664; until 1867 it was the town house of the earls of Shrewsbury.

It is hard to imagine a town with a population of 2,000 being short-listed for the Welsh capital when it consists essentially of two intersecting streets.

In a predominately rural area such as the Lake District, there are few towns.The major ones actually within the Lake District are Kendal (which has a separate chapter), Keswick and Windermere

The hills and slopes were soon smothered with retirement bungalows. Bank Street is set back from the front and meets Fore Street at the town square.

It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.

After the war, Brighton and other Sussex towns were still popular for holidays, but in the 1960s package tours took the tourists abroad.

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

In the middle distance on the left are Bagshaws, estate agents in the town since 1871.

It is to the credit of generations of Romford councillors, developers and benefactors that the borough has so many avenues of fine mature trees.

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

A Kettering resident remembers the town centre in the 1920s and 1930s when policemen, with arms outstretched, directed what little traffic there was, errand-boys cycled through the streets loaded with

Hollybush Lane lies in the southern part of the Garden City, and its tree-lined footpath and grassy triangular area typify Ebenezer Howard's vision of a ordered village atmosphere.

By the 18th century, Bishop Auckland was an important market town at a crossing point of the Wear.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis had as its focus the hot spring-fed baths, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.