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One of the finest houses in the town and dating from the 15th century, this is likely to have been built as a priest's lodging.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King's town at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was Edward the Confessor.

It is ten past twelve on a summer's afternoon in the mid-sixties in this sleepy North Cumbrian town - and there is not a vehicle in sight in the length of the long Main Street.

Derelict land on both sides of Broadway was screened by wooden hoardings and there were many complaints about this barren and unsightly part of town.

Local people always referred to Lower Brixham as 'Fish Town' and Higher Brixham as 'Cow Town' after their respective industries of fishing and farming.

Pickering Castle lies to the north of the town and was founded by William the Conqueror, though the earliest ruins date from the 12th century.

Old Sarum, an Iron Age fort, a junction for four Roman roads, a cathedral town and the original Salisbury, reveals its past with this display of excavated artefacts.

This view looks across the railway and the western Cleddau river onto Quay Street and the town and castle beyond.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Edward I made Helston an important regional stannary town, and its official Coinage Hall stood in this street until the early 1800s.

White Nancy is a tower situated on the ridge to the south of the town, and is said to have been built by a member of the Gaskell family to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, and to be named after one

Swansea's maritime tradition has always been vital to the town, and the various port extensions drove its economic development.

It was once a prosperous wool town, and famed for its lace.

The remains of Hastings Castle, the first built by William the Conqueror, crown Hastings' West Hill, with superb views over the town and out to sea.

Our progress down-river reaches Dorchester.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

This still stands on the north-east of the town and is the only one of Rye's four gates to survive.

We have an attractive glimpse of the medieval castle keep on its mound, which dominates the roofs of the town and the surrounding countryside.

Seen from Lower High Street, this was the main A30 through the town and a busy stop for buses and coaches.

'A grey town and a grim town, pervaded with the unlovely spirit of its fearful prison.'

Frith's photographer could not resist one of the most photographed views along the Thames: Windsor Castle on its cliff-top towering above the town and river.

The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.