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The stately 212ft-high Perpendicular tower of Derby's Cathedral of All Saints, which dominates this view of Iron Gate, still exerts a powerful influence on the county's biggest city.

Further along is the Timeball Tower (centre), built to give Greenwich Mean Time to passing ships by dropping a large ball down a shaft at the top of the tower at exactly 1pm every day.

The spire to the left of New Brighton Tower belonged to the Liverpool Home for Aged Mariners, but like the tower, it too has gone.

Despite this, the tower had to be rebuilt when it fell apart in the early 20th century. The Village Hall with its bell tower (left) was the village school from 1874 to 1971.

This was ruined in 1403 during Owain Glyndwr's revolt, and only the motte and a couple of towers remain. The tower has been further reduced since 1951 to provide stone for garden walls.

This tower was once linked by a chain to Barker's Tower on the opposite side of the river to stop craft entering the city without paying a tax.

Whereas Prichard's work on the 15th century Jasper Tower was very much in tune with the prevailing conservative medieval taste his South Tower (c1867), with open parapet and tall octagonal spire, was

Beyond Holy Trinity's Anglo-Saxon tower, the town hall's mighty tower closes the vista superbly: another example of its powerful contribution to the townscape of Colchester.

Magdalen College 1890 A classic Victorian picture of Oxford, which shows a punt on the Cherwell and the striking Perpendicular bell tower of Magdalen College in the background.

On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.

The somewhat gaunt appearance of this fortress-like building has been softened by the addition of a clock tower. It is now the Clock Tower Cafe, with little else changed.

A little church with a large tower, it is dedicated to St Cadoc, but it is said to have been founded by St David.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

Tom Tower is such an integral feature of Oxford that it is synonymous with the city's world-famous skyline. Oxford simply would not be Oxford without it.

This monumental clock tower, surmounted by a richly-decorated belfry and spire, is known more popularly as Big Ben, and was designed by E B Denison in 1858 after considerable technical difficulties.

The church tower presides over the east end of Fore Street, where two prams and a barrow are the only wheeled traffic on a sunny day.

This modern clock tower is part of Silchester House, built in 1820, but the clock tower is more modern. Silchester House is an attractive gabled rambling building with decorative chimneys.

Much of the Abbey would have been designed with arches, openings and decorations similar to those that survive on the Norman Tower.

Kirkhead Tower c1965 The folly of Kirkhead Tower stands on a headland overlooking the small coastal village of Allithwaite, which takes its name from a Norse settler named Eilifr.

The view looking beyond the Lansdowne Hotel and the Grand Hotel is now dominated by South Cliff Tower, an eighteen-storey block of flats about which the words 'sore thumb' come unbidden to mind: an example

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a sturdy 14th-century building with a 13th-century western tower.

The ornate clock tower and gateway were added in 1874 to designs by the famous pier designer Eugenius Birch. Both the entrance and the tower were demolished in 1928.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

The church, dedicated to St Ebba, was built around 1740 and enlarged in 1792 when the tower and spire were also added.