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A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation. The brick tower is tarred black for extra weather protection.

General View 1890 New Shoreham was a prosperous medieval port with a superb parish church, St Mary de Haura, whose great central tower can be seen in this view.

This splendid Perpendicular church at Seend, near Devizes, is ashlar-faced; there are gargoyles, battlements and pinnacles, and a squat west tower.

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.

This is a brick tower mill with four patent sails and winded by a fantail. The sail frames are empty, the shutters are removed.

This is truly a magnificently busy and marvellously nostalgic photograph, showing all types of fishing vessels and cranes, and the Victorian Dock Tower standing a majestic 309 feet over the busy port.

This last view of St Mary's Church gives a clearer impression of the relatively unrestored tower stonework.

Brechin's famous landmark is the Round Tower, dating from the 10th or 11th century, and one of only two examples of round towers in Scotland.

To give thanks for the saving of their lives, they instituted the construction of the twin church towers that once existed at Davington. Thereafter the Reculver towers were called the 'two sisters'.

The grandest is the Swan Revived Hotel, whose towering three- storey stuccoed front of about 1840 conceals a 17th-century inn.

Designed by J W Stansby (who also designed the tower of Christ Church), St Paul's was built in 1868-69 at the expense of the Grand Junction Railway Company. The spire was added in 1888.

Some thousand yards from the headland, Beacon Tower was a lookout built in 1674 by Sir John Clayton.

The magnificent three-storey porch, England's largest and constructed 100 years after the tower, faces the Market Square.

The 13th-century church with its 15th-century tower stands on the north side of the square.

The Tower School is a quirky building, perhaps a counterpoint to Bramber Castle on the other side of the Adur.

The corner shop is long gone, but the clock tower remains.

This close-up of the seafront shows the Imperial Hotel, while in the distance is the restored parish church, with a Jacobean tower, dating from 1641.

All Saints', with its somewhat minimalist battlemented tower, is a c1820 rebuild by Samuel Hewlett of an early 18th-century church. All underwent restoration in 1907.

Here we see the remains of the great triple-towered gatehouse. It is thought that Edward I's engineer-architect Master James of St George was responsible for its design.

The thatched clock tower at Houghton was erected in 1902 as a memorial to Potto Brown`s son, George.

This view, looking across Lower Close, has changed remarkably little since 1896; it shows how the cathedral dominates its surroundings, towering over the houses of Lower Close.

The Queen's Hotel is just to the right of the clock tower; it was one of the resort's main hotels at this time.

Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.

Hoghton Tower, set on a hill and visible for miles, dates from 1565. King James I beggared the Hoghtons by overstaying on a visit with all his retainers.