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This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families.

A new town was laid out from 1876 by the Earl of Scarbrough; in 1881 it acquired a splendid pier, seen here and unrecognisable to the modern visitor.

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.

The De Brus Cenotaph is the most significant surviving relic of the town's priory.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

The Town House extends from there to the taller tower, built about 1870.

This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

Portmadoc was originally intended to be the port of Tremadoc, a new town that never got beyond a village; it was planned by the speculator William Madocks, who had a grand scheme to persuade the Government

Seaton developed as a resort in the 1850s, and in the years that followed a number of hotels were built to cater for the town's popularity with visitors.

Over 150 years ago, Church Street was the main way out of the town to Chatburn.

The name 'Croston' means 'town with a cross'.

On the left is the Lancaster and District Bank, which became part of National Westminster Bank.

The old town of Cliffe, destroyed by fire in 1520, was revived briefly by the cement industry in the second half of the 19th century.

This village is in the Ouse valley just north of the town of Newhaven.

The new town of Amersham on the Hill developed from the 1890s when, after 60 years of opposition, the Drakes and then the Tyrwhitt-Drakes finally allowed the railway to come to Amersham, but up the hill

We go north again to the centre of the National Park and the best-known town in Powys.

This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave.

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

Inverary Castle, the 18th-century home of the Dukes of Argyll, was designed by Roger Morris and Robert Mylne and completed in about 1780.

The town of Oban is only a little more than 200 years old.

Always Norfolk's biggest and most popular holiday resort, Great Yarmouth always tried to find the latest attraction.

The car carrying vehicles and foot passengers usually took up to four minutes to cross from one side to the other.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.