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Also in the picture are (left to right) Chandler's House; the 1912 Methodist church; the Bay Horse Inn; and below the parish church, Stepping Stones House.

The town of St Helens derives its name from the early chapel dedicated to the saint.

The landward defences included a moat, a drawbridge and a barbican.

The trees and gate piers on the right have been replaced by a 1960s close of old people's bungalows, named St Andrew's Walk.

This small and delightful riverside town has a bustling quayside with a mix of pleasure boats and commerce in the shape of boat builders and repairers.

The William Brown Library, with its fine portico of six Corinthian columns, was built in 1860 to house the natural history collection of the 13th Earl of Derby; this had been bequeathed to the town in

This shows the heart of the Victorian holiday town, with the required esplanade and gardens for strolling.

A final view of Epsom town, with its wide High Street and only a little traffic. The clock tower, with public lavatories at its base, was about 100 years old when this picture was taken.

In 1835 Whitty's factory closed, and its machines were sold to a weaver in Wilton. It was not until 1937 that a new carpet factory opened in the town.

The town centre was constructed on a plateau halfway between Laindon and Vange. The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built.

Sherborne is, by some people's estimation, the most beautiful of the Dorset towns.

As tourism expanded, and smart visitors arrived in ever greater numbers, such untidiness was frowned on by local businesses - the town had to smarten up its image.

Since 1955 two architectural nonentities have appeared on the right of the photograph to mar the already indifferent quality of the market place, and road markings are becoming a prominent feature.

The international aspect of the town's trade can be seen by the sign outside Joseph Hird's grocery in the centre of the picture. It advertises him as a 'French and Italian Warehouseman'.

The wooded nature of the river banks is noticeable, and only the industrial scene on the far right of the picture would suggest that this is near the centre of a busy modern industrial town.

King's Norton, 'a praty uplandyshe towne', according to the topographer Leland, lies a few miles south of Birmingham, to which city - rather than Worcestershire - it now belongs.

The town is built close to St Osyth's creek, and takes its name from the wife of a 7th-century Essex king. The remains of a superb abbey are to be found close by.

This tiny cathedral city stands above the confluence of the River Clwyd and its tributary the Elwy. The cathedral is the smallest in Britain.

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

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.

In 1810 the Severn & Wye Railway Company developed Lydney Harbour, constructing the canal, dock basin and lock gates we see in the photograph.

Before the by-pass this was the main road through the town; it is now pedestrianised.

This street is a short one, running up into the town after crossing the Usk. The motor car is not yet a common sight, hence the horse-drawn carts going about their business.

The Cross and the Carew Arms 1929 Further south, Crowcombe is the largest village on the western flanks of the Quantocks, and once was a small market town.