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This photograph was taken around lunchtime, and parked cars are beginning to congest the scene.

Nevertheless, the Normans undoubtedly reorganised and reinvigorated Carlisle.

This was completed in 1899, and opened on 9 May by the Duchess of Kent. A popular promenade, it was also used as a low water landing stage for excursions and paddle steamers.

Its assets were transferred to the town by charter in 1551. The appointment of a public preacher was paid from these funds, and this house was built in 1611 to house the town's Preacher.

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962. A 14-storey block of 84 flats, it was named after Henry Brooke, the former Housing Minister.

This distinguished market town lies at the head of a valley.

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Set in the foothills of the Pennines, Halifax is one of the great cloth towns of England and has been a producer of cloth since the 13th century.

The village of West Retford, with its own medieval parish church, St Michael's, lies on the west bank of the River Idle, and has long been absorbed into the town.

Set in the foothills of the Pennines, Halifax is one of the great cloth towns of England and has been a producer of cloth since the 13th century.

Tenterden is a beautiful old Kentish town close to the Rother Levels. It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town.

With increases in both population and numbers of visitors to the town, provision had to be made for their shopping requirements.

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

The prominence of brick buildings here demonstrates a late flourish in the development of this town: the railway brought both bricks and visitors to the town.

Looking down Ropergate towards the Market Place, on the left we see the old Crescent Cinema (1926-1993), one of five picture palaces once in the town.

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar’s.

Also taken from the Town Hall, this photograph shows that the main street was less congested than it is today.

A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge is on the outskirts.The town is packed with mills and machinery works.

This scene is a contrast with the one seven years earlier, when the town packed into the Market Place to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

The View North from the Town Hall This view, taken from the Town Hall, shows the layout of Regent Circus leading to Regent Street in the 1950s.

The camera is looking towards Russell Street and George Street, with Sims clock at their junction. Before the clock was built in the early 1920s, this was the main taxi rank in the town centre.

The town's fine Market House dates from 1698; it rests on an arcade of pillars that are unusual in that they are made of stone on the outside, and timber on the inside.