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In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles was a thriving port.

The market place was once a good deal bigger than this, but fire swept through the town in 1679, and subsequent rebuilding encroached on the site.

In the mid 18th century, improvements in navigation on the River Blyth led to a big improvement in trade for the area's maltsters and brewers.

This could be any town, anywhere, the epitome of the Borough Architects' brave new world of the early 1960s.

From the height of Castle Hill, close to the old railway line on the east side of the valley, Bakewell looks exactly what it is: a pretty and compact market town.

Newton Abbot market has changed a great deal in both character and appearance since this photograph was taken in the 1920s.

The castle and the south-eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to the wooded slopes

The lane to Cock Hall is in the foreground and Whitworth High School playing fields now occupy the large field, with the school having been built to the right.

Some of these were enlarged and used as dwellings until quite recent times.

This was the main road into St Austell from Truro and the west before the building of the ring road.

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre and covers an area of seventeen acres.

By the mid 18th century, the town was even involved in whaling; blubber warehouses were erected along the inner harbour.

St Anne's has been described as 'a town built on golf', and this is epitomised in this splendid building.

The Gardens at Dunoon offer a little peace and tranquillity, compared to the hustle and bustle of the town.

We are looking north-east up the valley to the town.

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

Tenbury received its first charter for a market and fair in 1249, but remained a fairly humble country town until 1839 when a medicinal spring was discovered, leading to the creation of a pump room and

A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.

St Mary's Church, which rises behind the Dolphin Hotel, is renowned for its lavishly-decorated tower and impressive tie beam roof, both of which date from its rebuilding in the 15th century.

Wellington has always been a prosperous small market town.

For many years, Todmorden (or 'Tod' as it is always known locally) straddled the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, and this busy, bustling little town has always had a foot in both camps, although

The streets are packed with onlookers, and anxious officials wait by the entrance to the site of the new town hall.

Leckhampton Hill, and the surrounding four hundred acres of grassland, were purchased by Cheltenham Town Council in 1929, and the area is now designated as a Site of Special Scientific

It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.