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As the town grew, its businesses drifted off to the main London-Colchester road. St Nicholas' was built c1330.

New houses are appearing in the distance on Smitham Downs.

We are looking down the main shopping area to the old Market Hall, which was partly demolished in 1992.

The fishing hamlet of Worbarrow (upper left), is seen here with Hill Cottage below Gold Down and Sea Cottage boathouses facing Worbarrow Bay.

These awe-inspiring and formidable walls and gates were knocked down in 1934. At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed.

This view down Whitehall shows the yet-to-be-cleaned Nelson's Column. The two buildings to the left are banks, with the modern Whitehall Theatre between the two.

Boscombe was built across a wooded chine (a wide ravine) that led down to the sea; these features are common along this coast.

Sheep on the High Street are a distant memory, but the town has managed to preserve a number of older buildings - including the 16th-century porch on the left.

Often described as the gateway to the Cotswolds, the picturesque town of Burford has changed little over the years.

This view down Market Street shows how Whittlesey has prospered in the past fifty years.

The bustling town of Huddersfield, like so many other Pennine towns, was founded on the wealth won from the 19th-century explosion in the worsted and woollen industries.

The balustraded enclosure on the traffic island surrounds steps leading down to The Island Club and the Parade Gardens, formerly known as St James's Triangle.

This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda in

It is dominated by its cobbled Market Square, which leads down to the castle, home to the Ingilby family for more than 600 years.

The last bottle kiln to be used commercially closed down in 1967.

The last mill burned down in 1905, though at one point there had been two mills here - one paper, one wheat. Coal, timber, lime and dung were the other major cargoes passing through.

Bramber was once the main town of one of the Sussex Rapes, or Anglo-Saxon administrative areas, and the seat of William de Braose's Norman castle guarding the Adur gap through the Downs.

As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.

On race days this intersection was crowded with pedestrians and traffic making their way to the racecourse on Epsom Downs.

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

The Bute Arms (further down the street on the left) gets its name from the Marquises of Bute, great landowners in South Wales and important nationally.

Pier Hill leads down to the sea front esplanade, with the Palace Hotel on the left.

Though it now looks like a typical early 20th- century roadhouse, the Prince of Wales has much older origins: the earlier thatched hostelry was burnt down in 1930.