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Our brief tour of Minehead starts up in Higher Town, the old town. Here the narrow Church Steps wind from Vicarage Road up steps to the church at the town's summit.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thundered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

Castle Street runs north from the town centre. Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

It has been said of Bebington that 'though the town centre is lacking in character, it is also open, green and wholesome', and that description still works well now.

The coming of firstly the Grand Union Canal and then the railways, led to the establishment of modern Linslade at its present location.

The building on the left is the Tudor Town Hall, also known as the Town House or Geld Hall. It was certainly in existence in 1571, and is now occupied by Trembath Welch, the estate agents.

Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

At the turn of the century Wetherby was described in some tourist guides as 'a town of no interest'.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

The St Mary's we see here was only a few years old, and is possibly the sixth church on the site. The 1898 version was completely destroyed in a wartime air raid, along with much of the town centre.

Standing beside a bridge across the River Brun, from which the town takes its name, is Burnley Town Hall.

In 1924, this compact little town had (and still has) its own town council.

Further west along the A30, Chard is a market town laid out in 1234 by Bishop Jocelyn of Wells.

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

Named for the Queen and photographed in the 60th year of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging

Today Little Sutton has become a suburb of the much newer town of Ellesmere Port.

The old stump of this tree known as Merlin's Oak is still kept in the town's civic hall.

Now slightly nearer the town centre, we see more commercial and municipal buildings. The bus offices on the left stand opposite the old Midland Bank and the Town Hall and Library.

St Paul's Square became very much the civic centre of the town with the Floral Hall, the Corn Exchange, the Town Hall, the Shire Hall and County Offices looking out onto the church in its central

The old town is in fact one mile inland from the sea, where in 1119, Walter de Grant founded an Augustinian priory.

His vision in 1925 was to create 'something really special' for the unplanned country village of Pitsea, turning it into a thriving town with a Tudor theme.

This view shows the shipping staithes at Bridgwater, this time downstream from the Town Bridge. Inevitably, the town is much changed now, with made-up roads, much more building - and no ships.