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Arthur Mee was impressed by this church, and in his King's England series he wrote that the spire is 'a striking spectacle with three bands of panelling round it' and marvelled at its 'embattled tower

This photograph shows part of the Low Green, with its war memorial and the Bay Horse Inn in the background, and the tower of the parish church of St Anne beyond.

This view from Tideswell Road shows the 83 feet high 'campanile' or detached bell tower and the semi-circular apse of this 'basilica' church. It remains virtu- ally unaltered.

John Johnson's imposing Gothic clock tower, built in 1887 of white stone with sporadic red bands and gabled clock faces, was originally intended to form the centrepiece of a new building development, some

The building underwent considerable restoration and remodelling between 1868 and 1888, including the construction of the nave and the west towers.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

Barclays Bank is along the left-hand side of the street in front of the distinctive Town Hall tower.

The Normans followed, but the base of their tower is all that remains.

Oliver Vye's Lane (lower right) runs below the ruined mediaeval towers of the Outer Bailey.

The pinnacled Perpendicular tower of the parish church of the Holy Trinity fills the background, with the war memorial on the right.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

The polygonal Sharington's Tower, also dating from the 16th century, is on the right.

This space was used to host peddlers' fairs and sporting events, all under the watchful eye of the 14th-century church-tower.

The tower of St Mary's Church dates to the 13th century, while the shingled spire was added a hundred or so years later.

The second light stands a little way behind, in the town, a much taller tower modelled on the Pharos light of ancient Alexandria.

In the distance, a 100ft tower, a replica of the famous Eddystone Lighthouse, surmounts Hoad Hill.

You will not be able to see this tower again unless you own a wet suit and aqualung, for it slipped into the sea below in 1916.

Brodick was enlarged when garrisoned by Cromwell's troops, and the tower is a mid 19th-century addition.

Dugberry Hill is on the skyline (right of church tower).

The motte was surrounded by a ditch, but this came within the castle perimeter when the gate tower was built, so a second ditch was excavated.

Only the tower of the old church remains - it dates back to c1500. That too was built from Waddington Fell stone.

The church tower looks Norman, but the main doorway is 13th-century. Oliver Cromwell stabled horses and troops in the church after the Battle of Preston in 1648.

This was built by R Hesketh in 1867; it was remodelled by J L Pearson during the years 1889-95, when it acquired its tower and spire.

The two towers of Howley Power Station had dominated the landscape since the extensions of 1946, but the site had supplied Warrington's electricity since 1900.