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Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.

The black and white marks on the kerbstones indicate the junction. This is a small handsome town on the River Test with Georgian buildings that are rendered or red brick.

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

This view is taken from Brenchley Gardens, an oasis of peace and quiet near the very heart of town. The gardens were given to Maidstone in 1873 by Julius Lucius Brenchley.

This is the A16 coming in from Stamford towards the town centre. Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house.

The town originally grew up around the burial place of the Celtic Saint Tydfil.

The structure behind the drinking fountain is the Simeon Monument, 'erected and lighted for ever at the expense of Edward Simeon as a mark of affection to his native town' in 1804.

Beyond are the town's two superb 'Somerset style' Perpendicular Gothic church towers, St Mary's beyond the (now demolished) factory chimney and St James' Church to the right, also a 19th-century rebuild

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre. The shops displayed their wares to the elements.

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre. The shops displayed their wares to the elements.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Dolgellau was the county town of the old county of Merioneth, and is set amid the mountains which are famous for Welsh gold—the mines here provided gold for Royal wedding rings.

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century.

Timothy Whites, the chemist, was a familiar sight in post-war Wales and is a conspicuous business on the Square.

In medieval times, Snaith was an important trading town - its market charter was granted in 1223.

Few of the late 18th- and early 19th-century visitors to the county passed through Lampeter, but one visitor who walked from Carmarthen to Chester stayed a weekend in the town in 1836.

Looking west towards Pidley cum Fenton, we see Somersham before the start of the building programme which has brought an industrial estate and several large housing developments.

For centuries the town mill had ground the corn for the local farmers.

The East Gate to the town was demolished in 1800, but the old South Gate on the road from London still stands.

Even in wartime the strict dress code for Weymouth beach remained, though many of the soldiers and sailors stationed in the town would seek out lonely coves in the vicinity for a spot of

Many of the houses in this area, some around 300 years old, were built of stones and pebbles.

Hanley has two famous sons: the author Arnold Bennett and the aircraft designer Reginald Mitchell were both born in the town.

Northleach lies between Cheltenham and Burford, and most of this former wool town's buildings date from Tudor and Jacobean days.

An unusual, but often most welcome, combination of pharmacy and sub-post office, the building on the near left has performed the function under at least three owners to the knowledge