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This small esplanade at East Beach leads from the pier and passes the gangway where the fishermen launch and land their boats. This area is illuminated by beautiful, ornate lamp posts.

The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.

The town was known as 'Wycumbe' in the 12th and 13th centuries, and by the 14th century it was known as Chepping Wycombe to distinguish it from West Wycombe - 'chepping' means 'market'.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

The ornate stone monument in the foreground - known locally as The Pepperpot - is the Ames Memorial, dedicated to magistrate and landowner, Lt Col Lionel Ames.

Egham is not the most inspiring of Surrey towns. This view is at the east end of the High Street at the roundabout where it joins the A30, in effect the northern by-pass.

Shefford is a small market town with Royal Charters dating back to the 13th century.

The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done. Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

With St Mary's Church in the distance, Church Street is typical of a market town by-way in the early 1950s.

We are looking north towards Kemple End. The first sod of the railway line at Clitheroe was cut on 30 December 1846.

The Walmer Stores in the centre of this photo has its blinds down.

This is the bottom or western end of Westgate.

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

What a scene this is, with bathers in the water, and gentlemen sitting on benches putting the world to rights. Tourists are ordering tickets for the twice-nightly end-of-the-pier show.

The Carfax 1907 The Carfax and market place is at the heart of the old town.

Cliffe perches at the end of the long chalk ridges, overhanging the marshes of the Thames. It was formerly an important place until a fire in 1562 gutted the town.

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

Staines was very much an agricultural area when this photograph was taken towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign; the shop fronts tell us a great deal about the commercial aspects of

Photographed before its conversion to a one-way system, the High Street appears a quiet market town thoroughfare.

It was a ford which fixed the site of Belfast, but not long after the town was begun, a bridge crossed the river.

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

Lyme Regis harbour, or the Cobb, was once a seafaring settlement separate from the old town.

East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (left), was built by J and T Gale in 1784 and has been widened.