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Ask a Chelmsfordian to name the biggest planning crime in the town's history, and the chances are that they will mention the demolition of Tindal Street in 1969- 71.

Opened to the public in 1873, it was the only source of recreation for working-class families living in the crowded town centre courtyards.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

A panoramic view of the town with the Priory ruins in the foreground and the tower of the church of St Thomas à Becket on the hill to the left. The Castle can be seen in the centre.

This picture evokes a different world and a very different Crawley from today's seething New Town of more than 60,000 people.

The town's name comes from Old English and means lime or linden wood. Domesday Book calls the settlement here Linhest.

Clemersons, the town's one and only department store, had started in the mid 19th century as an ironmongers.

The town's other coaching inns were the Grey Mare Inn in the Market Place for services to Leeds, York, Liverpool, Manchester and Clitheroe; the Eagle & Child in Silver Street for Manchester and Skipton

The River Stort formed the boundary between Hertfordshire and Essex and provided the transportation service for the malting industry in the town.

The buildings on the right, formerly the Town School, were known as Maryport Chambers; they comprised the Ministry of Food and Labour, Devizes County Court Office and the Women's Voluntary Service.

Its buildings are both picturesque and smart and have obviously developed at the whim of individual owners, rather than uniformly as with some other towns on the Isle of Wight.

The Town Hall, in Church Street, was designed by John Lowe and erected during 1880-81 on the site of the old cockpit.

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

On the left of the view, on the skyline, we can decipher the distinctive tower of the town hall, and also the tower of the parish church.

The pub has lost its porch and the horse above it, but the early 14th-century tower of St Michael's still stands over the town.

The bushes to the left hide the site of the old abbey at Abingdon, founded in 676 and again in 955 after the original had been destroyed by marauding Danes. It was the mainstay of this area.

The coming of the railway put Whitby on the tourist map; its harbourside streets, ruined abbey, and souvenirs made from jet, which is a fossilized wood found locally, all proved a magnet for holidaymakers

Here we see yet another half-timbered inn, the Red Lion, bearing testimony to the importance of the town in medieval and coaching days.

Herbert H Raphael`s gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden Suburb

Congested with cottages, whitewashed yards and washing lines, they were the home ground of the working population of the town. Most of them were severely damaged by bombing in the war.

Queen Elizabeth II visited this town in 1953 to offer her condolences to the hundreds of residents whose lives had been torn apart by a monstrous flood that wrecked homes and businesses.

The clock is a focal point of the town. Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

The solicitor, Edmund Harris was one of Preston's greatest benefactors, who on his death left a bequest of over £400,000 to the town.

Ormesby was once an important market town whose inhabitants were privileged to be exempt from county service, and from contributing funds towards the maintenance of the Shire Knights.