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St Michael's tower (right), which dates from the mid 15th century, is all that remains of the city centre church today. The rest was demolished in 1955.

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

The tower of St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral can be seen in the background.

The four-storey round tower in the distance at the south-east angle, strongly built, remains today in perhaps the best state of preservation of all the castle buildings.

This unpretentious church with its 12th-century round tower has hidden secrets. Heavily restored and decorated throughout, it has many features.

It is now a fragment: the nave north aisle is now the parish church with a monumental 15th-century tower capped by a squat spire.

Clifford's Tower was built by Henry III; it occupies the site of William the Conqueror's motte and bailey destroyed by the Danes in 1069.

A fine view of the Welsh mountains can be had from the 14th-century spire set on a tower. Richard Massock's tomb is here – he was a Royalist captured at the Battle of Aughton Common.

Most of these belong to the university, and include the former Grammar School, located near the cathedral towers.

It began as a square castellated pele tower to which was added a hall range. It was further extended and modernised in the 19th century.

The chancel and south chapel date from the 14th century and the exceptionally tall tower was built about a century later.

From the south bank, near Westminster Bridge, completed in 1862, this view shows the bell tower known universally by its great bell, Big Ben.

From 1799 onwards the docks east of the Tower of London were dug, becoming one of the industrial wonders of the world and a tourist attraction!

The view is now changed, with 1960s tower blocks of flats on the skyline. Shoeburyness is now the eastern part of a 'Greater Southend'.

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

Here we see the junction of White Horse Street and Sun Street, leading to St Mary's Church with its 13th-century tower and prominent spike.

The clock tower is conspicuous near the pier, and the new lifeboat house faces the sea on the right.

This village scene is overlooked by the tower and spire of the church, the whole about 100 feet high and providing a landmark for sailors off the Lizard peninsula.

The great cylindrical keep, built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, towers above the ruins. The future Henry VII was born here in 1457.

The castle had high curtain walls studded with massive drum towers; the King's apartments and Presence Chamber were in the inner ward.

This is a typical Suffolk brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. The mill was used as the subject of a TV interlude film in 1950s, and was watched by millions of viewers.

This was the water tower for St Mary's Abbey. At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

The unusual square tower at the north-east corner is thatched with Norfolk reed.