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The array above the annexe beside the old Town Hall belongs to the telephone exchange, which moved there in 1888.

The views are remarkably evocative of a past era of the town, as the road has, with one notable exception, been entirely redeveloped.

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached. Parkgate was a popular yachting centre.

The little town of Corfe is older than its castle; it is the Corvergate of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.

The Esplanade 1918 In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

Below the Town Clock the blackened sandstone of Holy Trinity Church bears witness to the effects of industrial pollution. Meanwhile a rag and bone man trots on his way in front of the Metro Cleaners.

The increasing sizes and numbers of vehicles led to the town centre being by-passed. The building behind the man on the Corgi (centre right) has been demolished to create Angel Link.

Looking from the Hall (or the Palace Avenue Theatre) through the gardens, we can see Norton's and Welton's shoe shops.

Kingsbury Square is the market place for the oldest part of the town; this grew up around the church, whose tower can be seen beyond the roofs.

South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town. It was an old market under the Camois family, and is now a district of Worthing.

After a succession of owners and tenants, the estate was sold to Featherstone Council in 1930 for £3,600, after which it was used as the Town Hall and a public park.

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

Lack of major industrial development in Tewkesbury meant that the town retained much of its 17th- and 18th-century character and did not experience much of an explosion in its population.

The town achieved some status as a holiday resort, particularly as a touring centre and as a base for leisure yachting.

With the introduction of the one-way system, traffic now travels only out of town through the arch. Next to the Arch is the Baker's Arms Hotel, another 18th-century building.

Although Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall dominates the scene, it is the small round building almost in the middle of our picture that intrigues me.

Hockley was a growing town by this time and a parade like this, typical of development in the 1950s, would have been well used.

It is sad that most of the shipbuilding and heavy industry have now gone into decline. The first square-rigger to be built was launched here in 1760.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east. It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

After the First World War, Aylesbury began developing along the arterial routes into the town.

Middleton was granted a market charter on 23 June 1791 and the market remained here until 1939. Surrounded by shops and inns, the Market Place was the hub of the town for many years.