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Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.

A cart horse of Dickens & Co, brewers and wine and spirits merchants, waits patiently between trips. Lighter loads were taken around town by handcart.

The finest feature is its tower with angle volutes and vases crowned by a slim spire.

It is known to Worcester folk as the Glover's Needle because of its slenderness and height, and because this part of town was the main gloving area when the trade still flourished.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

Further up into the Market Place from G66002, we see the town's library at number 14 Market Place (left) before its move to new premises behind Westgate in the early 1960s.

Mills crowd in towards the town centre, following the course of the river Roach and its tributary the Spodden. Textile mills reached their peak of prosperity at this time.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

Its core collection, gathered together by Philpot's sisters at their home in Silver Street, was moved down the hill in stages, but the Philpot Museum did not open to the general public until

This tiny cathedral city stands above the confluence of the River Clwyd and its tributary the Elwy. The cathedral is the smallest in Britain.

The Duke of York is one of Burnley's landmark inns, and gives its name to this part of town. The tip of a spire can be seen just off centre.

The arches around the veranda carry the shields of the Lancashire towns who supported the movement.

This view is one of several in the Frith archive taken from the Town Hall roof. To the left is the Queen's Hotel with its central flag-poled turret.

Rhuddlan is most famous for its castle and its historic association with Edward I. There are remnants of medieval buildings in the town.

A large number of its fine stone buildings now dominate the north part of the town.

The London & Provincial Bank established itself c1883, relocating to a vacant school building on the corner of Stanwell Road c1886. It became Barclays (left) after bank amalgamation of 1919.

Once tree-lined, the pavement edge to the right of the photograph has given itself up to signage and lighting standards.

The old Infirmary, designed by John Wing and opened in 1803, fronted Ampthill Road; it was later expanded to be the Bedford General Hospital (South Site).

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

Bath Street curves away northwards from the Square and its junction with the High Street.

By the 1950s the south front of Gisborough Hall was covered in Boston ivy; it still is today, and looks stunning in the autumn.

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.

Many of Chalford's streets are too narrow and steep to allow cars and are best explored on foot, much as the master-weavers of the cloth trade would have known them.