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Another view shows what a high quality design the subscribers got from their architects, Arthur McKewan and G H V Cole, using a sort of Baroque-cum-Wren style. It cost £6,000.

The medieval borough and market town of Bala is still loved for its wide streets in this most rural part of Meirionnydd.

The shop offers an alternative to alcohol by offering teas and snacks, in a time before pub food was the norm.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.

This pond with its island is a most attractive feature in the outer part of the town. While it is somewhat municipalised nowadays, it is very ancient.

We are looking along Guild Hall Street towards what was previously called the Town Hall. The street has now been tarmaced and early motor vehicles have appeared.

Acle is a busy market town, one of the early possessions of the Bigods, who founded a priory here during the reign of Edward I.

Once on the edge of Leicester Forest, this visually undistinguished town became in the 19th century a focal point of the framework knitting industry.

In the background is the 12th-century parish church of St Nicholas, which has been superseded by the ultra-modern church of St George in the 'new' town of Letchworth.

Opposite are Timothy White and Taylors Ltd at 62 High Street, and Smeeds, who were wine and spirit merchants.

Freed of livestock, the Saturday market became a more congenial place; it was thriving and prosperous, despite competition from a new Monday market introduced in 1883.

This public house at Stratton St Margaret owes its existence to the Wilts and Berks Canal which ran nearby.

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.

The churchyard rails are on the left in this scene in the heart of the old town.

Before efficient transport links were opened to Ilfracombe, steamers crossed the Severn estuary from South Wales, discharging hundreds of day-trippers into the town.

The town is chiefly noteworthy for its noble old castle, the remains of which have been carefully strengthened so that the relic is the best preserved of the nine castles in Carmarthenshire.

St John's Church stands at the busy crossroads of the High Street and Station Road, which runs towards Fry's (now Cadbury's) chocolate factory at Somerdale.

The Victorian guide book writer J Burney Yeo complained that the new town had 'no esplanade or promenade' and found the burgeoning resort very dull in comparison with others.

The town took the cross over and installed a chimney clock in 1899. The library on the square (right) boasts that it is 'the largest in East Anglia'.

It pumped sea water, which was used both in local water carts for street cleaning, and for flushing out the town's sewerage system.

Travelling aboard the 'Mayflower', the emi- grants had to put into Dartmouth and Plymouth following problems with the ship.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

The buildings now house the town's museum. The museum was opened by Lord Raglan in July 1959, and its first curator was Duggan Thacker. It was extended with the refurbishment .

This is the Fowey beloved of weekend salts and retired admirals who sip gins on the verandahs of waterside houses in this timeless old town. A