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Donkeys and ponies stood for hire on each side of the Pullover, which was later to be Tower Esplanade. Note the child's wickerwork saddle hanging on the fence.

A rather choleric lion sits on top of a strangely classical island memorial cum clock tower. The total street scene exudes 1900, with typical shops and corner pub.

Behind and to the right is the turreted tower of the parish church. Built in 1851, it replaced the original church dating from the reign of Richard III.

We are looking towards the Kitchen Tower, which is situated in the Stone Court. The main entrance to this court was by a gatehouse protected by a portcullis.

This is Park Street in the days before the top end was dominated by the Gothic tower of the university, designed by Sir George Oatley.

A view over the rooftops from Tower Hill. The steamer crossing West Bay is heading to Greenock. A steamer has just departed, crossing to Kilcreggan.

When built, Chirk was an Edwardian square castle with a drum-tower at each angle, though by 1310 work was under way to extend it.

This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.

This gateway was called Packe Gates when it was the entrance to the long drive to clifftop Branksome Tower, built for Sir Charles Packe in 1852.

Looking north-west past the village cross, we see the church with its curiously plain tower and mean spire.

It was built in 1826, in a rare Greek-revival style, with a circular bell tower above the pedimented Doric portico.

A view looking east from the tower towards the head. The large villas, signs of Howth's emerging prosperity as a commuter town to Dublin, are visible on the hillside.

This street, broad and uncluttered by traffic, is lined with Georgian and Victorian houses, and dominated by the splendid Victorian clock tower at the far end.

It was built in the 19th century in 14th-century style; its fine octagonal spire graces its western tower.

The Cow Tower, with barges moored nearby, looks out from the edge of Cowholme, now in the riverside walk park, to the late 19th-century city expansion beyond the Wensum.

The original clock tower stood in an area known as The Shambles, and was surrounded by small shops.

Hunstanton's chief feature is its distinctive white and red banded cliffs, which rise from nothing at this point to a towering 30 metres just 300 metres further north.

This view, looking across Lower Close, has changed remarkably little since 1896; it shows how the cathedral dominates its surroundings, towering over the houses of Lower Close.

This fine view looks across the clock tower and Morton Crescent to the estuary of the River Exe, with Starcross and the Haldon Hills in the distance.

This fine view looks across the clock tower and Morton Crescent to the estuary of the River Exe, with Starcross and the Haldon Hills in the distance.

Its crossing tower is possibly of the 14th century; it is buttressed by simple moulded half arches at the east end of the nave.

The church of St Peter, with its unusual saddleback-roofed tower, dates from Norman times.

On the summit is a watch-tower dating from the Napoleonic Wars, and an archway made from the jawbones of a whale.

Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.