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With New Town status and under the aegis of the Development Corporation, Bracknell began to expand rapidly.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

As one of the town's major employers, Kodak gave £10,000 for a new children's playground to be built in Gadebridge Park to replace the one lost by the construction of the Plough roundabout.

In the 1950s Kettering was still an important boot and shoe town, specialising in heavy work boots. It also had a significant engineering and clothing industry.

Dominating this area of the town is St Mary's Church.

This illustrious town, often called the gateway to Cornwall, crowns the dark hill that rises from the valley of the tiny River Kensey.

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962. A 14-storey block of 84 flats, it was named after Henry Brooke, the former Housing Minister.

Abundant, fast-flowing streams made Stroud an important mill town in the Middle Ages, when water wheels turned the stones that ground the corn.

We are looking down Church Street in Bexhill's old town, which lies inland from the seaside resort. The walnut tree on the right once marked the old town's centre; it was cut down in 1921.

Here we see another view of the bleak and unappealing shopping precinct, constructed when the town's population numbered less than twenty thousand people; it appears less incongruous when viewed alongside

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

This nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

This nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

This revealing glimpse looks down Market Street towards the High Street.

We are looking from the Nag's Head Island side towards Bridge Street and the town.

We view the town from the beach below the Royal Standard. The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

Erected in 1858 as a memorial to Robert Peel, the Town Hall, whose porch and balcony project into the street, originally served as the Mechanics' Institute until the town was incorporated as a borough

This splendid view of the High Street as it ascends the hill towards the Guildhall was taken from the Town Bridge crossing the River Wey.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour. The street today has been partly pedestrianised. In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

Shirebrook is a small town on the border with Nottinghamshire which grew up with, and was dominated by, the growth of the Shirebrook and Langwith collieries.

Much of the older town has gone, but in and around the High Street there are still reminders of Crawley as it used to be.

Bampton has an interesting variety of 17th- and 18th-century buildings; many of those in the High Street have 19th- or 20th-century frontages.