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A market town since the 13th century, Ulverston became a busy port during the 18th and 19th centuries, exporting slate via the country's shortest canal.

From the beach, the pier's extravagant pavilions suggest something mysterious and exotic, a world away from the industry of the nearby towns.

Rhos-on-Sea was the poorer cousin to nearby Colwyn Bay, yet it still manages an identity of its own.

The town owes its very existence to the building of the Ellesmere Canal (as it was then called) by Thomas Telford and William Jessop in the 1790s.

Dominating the scene is the three-star, forty-one bedroomed Strathclyde Hotel, a substantial building standing on a podium, which provided welcome accommodation for business visitors to the town

Legend relates that the original site for the priory church was on the nearby St Catherine's Hill, a splendid view- point overlooking the town.

This late Victorian scene is typical of many of the towns and villages in England at the time.

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

Originally with its ground floor open behind the arches, it was left unfinished, amazingly, for over three centuries, and finally completed in 1895.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

One early change was the construction of the large building halfway along on the right which is one of the town's two fish- and-chip shops.

In 1905 Swindon was a busy manufacturing town which owed its wealth and commercial rise almost exclusively to the railway age in general and the inspiration of Sir Daniel Gooch in particular, who

The Ulverston Canal was opened in 1796 to connect the town with the Leven Estuary, and to enable trade, both exports and imports, to be increased.

However, in Victorian times the town became a popular spa, complete with pump room and baths and around 100 lodging houses.

The pub doors were rescued after demolition, and are preserved in the town's museum.

when railway engineers were convinced of the impossibility of constructing a rail link over Shap, Fleetwood was conceived in the 1830s to link trains from London with steamers to Glasgow and

Defoe records that he saw 'perhaps two hundred sail of ships' lying by the town during the winter months, 'as safe as in a wet dock'.

Stamford, one of England's most attractive and historic towns, is only just in Lincolnshire. The River Welland is the boundary between it and Northamptonshire.

Llandudno stands back against the mass of the Great Orme's head, which shelters it from north winds, and on a neck of sand between two bays, which are so close together that in rough weather their spray

This archway and wall date back over two hundred years; it is known as Gannock Gate, and forms part of a huge park known as The Walks, where it was the perfect place for fashionable folk

It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

Here we see a pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town. The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.

A quaint wooden footbridge gives this pedestrian relatively quick access over the River Blyth where it is joined by Buss Creek to the coastal town of Southwold.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden