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Newport has a rich history, with Roman occupation at Caerleon, a medieval castle, and the Chartist Rising of 1839, which was put down by troops.

No town centre worth its salt was complete without its Co-op store. On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society.

The electorate consisted of those men who had a hearth in Newport and St Stephens, and they voted as they were ordered to by the Duke of Northumberland; this effectively meant that the Duke decided who

Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display. Alfred Webb, on the corner of Bellfoundry Lane (left), had been established in 1897 as Webb Bros.

The fine setting of the town church is shown in this picturesque view through the gateway.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

The new factory was commissioned in 1912, and was built over the following eight years.

Rothesay is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute, in an ideal location in the sheltered 'sweet Rothesay Bay', to quote the popular song.

One of the founders of the Infirmary had been Dr White, and it was his son Charles who made many changes and advances in the treatment of women.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

There was a great fire in 1600 in Gamlingay, and most of the buildings along Church Street were burnt down. The Cock is one of the early replacements; in 1965 the beer was supplied by Greene King.

One is that he was found abandoned in the parish church by some Yorkshire clothiers who were pass- ing through the town on their way home.

New crowd-pulling ideas included carnivals and processions. In the 1960s formation sailing was performed by the light of coloured searchlights. Today, Hamble Week promotes local produce.

Leighton Buzzard's name has nothing directly to do with birds of prey, despite several local organisations adopting the title 'The Buzzards' and using the hawk as an emblem.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

We are looking down on the village from the site of a Roman camp. The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.

Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster. This replaced the old palace, which burned down in 1834.

The town is best-known for its castle of Edward I, started in 1294 in response to Madog's revolt, but never completed.

Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.

On the level ground to the south-west of the town stands the almost ploughed-out remains of an ancient double-ditched camp called The Aubreys.

Shops here have been kept by the same families for years, and they still have a reputation for quality and service.