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Whereas Marton and South Fylde worshippers had to bring their dead to St Chad's, the parish church of Poulton, people from the new town of Fleetwood had to come to Meadows Avenue, which used to be called

It is hard to believe looking at this unremarkable village centre that just round the corner lie the remains of an important Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum.

This busy scene looking along the river terrace steps on Victoria Embankment shows the1860s Town Arms pub by the bridge, the gabled building with bay windows and white stucco dressings.

Castle Gardens were laid out in 1905 on part of the old town.

The surrounding gardens contained tennis and croquet facilities, together with delightful wooded walks.

In the distance and slightly to the left of the clock tower is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell, who built the first steam-powered vessel to sail on the Clyde.

There was no bus station in the town, so buses parked in designated ranks painted on the road surface.

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925.

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north-west corner of the Town Hall.

Inverary Castle, the 18th-century home of the Dukes of Argyll, was designed by Roger Morris and Robert Mylne and completed in about 1780.

The town of Oban is only a little more than 200 years old. It owes its origins to the establishing of a fishing station by the government Fishery Board in 1786.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

Always Norfolk's biggest and most popular holiday resort, Great Yarmouth always tried to find the latest attraction.

The car carrying vehicles and foot passengers usually took up to four minutes to cross from one side to the other.

Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

Though only a couple of miles to the north of Newcastle, Gosforth had a character and identity of its own.

The following year, Hertford was back in Scotland, burning five market towns, sacking 243 villages, and laying waste to crops. Edward VI of England was destined not marry the Queen of Scots.

In 1898 the school buildings were still crisp and new; they show well the Gothic Revival style chosen by Robins - this style was favoured by schools in Victorian times.

Because Egremont was a newly-laid-out town, the streets were mostly straight and wide. King Street ran parallel to the Promenade, and was a very busy thoroughfare.

This view and 27204, pages 72-73 are well away from the town; the banks are consequently more thinly populated and the boats, punts and skiffs far fewer than one might expect.

Although Brighton and Hove have now been amalgamated into a city, in the past Hove was a much quieter and more conservative town than its neighbour.

Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.

The White Hart is over 400 years old, and spent the first 200 years of its life as one of the town's many woollen mills.

The gabled Renaissance-style Town Hall, built on the corner of Pinstone Street and Surrey Street, was designed by E W Mountford and completed in 1896; its official opening by Queen Victoria took place