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This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

The power station that dominates the town was established in 1927. The bulk of the station was demolished in 1968 and rebuilt with massive cooling towers.

In the centre is the 98ft high bell tower of 1853.

It was in a dungeon below one of these towers that Lady Margaret de Pomeroy starved to death after being imprisoned by her elder sister Eleanor as the result of a dispute over a suitor.

It was then bought by Lord Ellenborough, the Governor General of India from 1841-44, who built the semi- detached neo-Norman tower on the east side on his return from India.

Originally early Norman, it was altered and enlarged in 1330, and a perpendicular tower was added in the 15th century.

It towers over Stone Bow and is one of the city's finest Victorian commercial buildings.

St Mawes comprises a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf.

At first glimpse Bibury church, with its castellated roofline and square tower, looks largely 15th-century. On closer examination, however, the fabric's earlier origins become evident.

The red brick clock tower was erected in 1890 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee of 1887.

Beyond the former school and schoolmaster's house is the church, dominated by its 15th-century tower which is over eighty feet high.

A fine stone village a mile from Frome, Beckington has some superb stone houses and a church with an excellent Norman tower.

The fine Perpendicular Gothic 15th-century crossing tower dominates the church. The photographer is facing the chancel.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

A directory of the time states that 'the church of All Saints is a plain and ancient edifice of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and porch, and a small wooden tower with pinnacles, rising

One of the finest medieval churches in Dorset, with an outstanding decorated roof and Turberville family effigies, the tower (top) and Morton Chapel (centre) were added in the 16th century.

Just visible on the far right at the top of the hill is the day beacon, an 80ft stone tower which marks the eastern side of the entrance to the estuary, as the entrance is almost impossible

The Cotswold stone tower of St Andrews Church stands fittingly adjacent to the Market Cross, the scene of Castle Combe's once famous sheep market.

The clock tower shown here, partly enclosed by an hexagonal shelter and situated at the centre of a traffic system, stands on the site of what once was a wayside chapel.

The foundations of this 153ft-high tower were sunk 18ft into the chalk, and about 3,600 tons of Cornish granite were used to build it. The light is visible for 16 miles.

The tower is late 13th-century and the spire has chamfers which reach halfway up. The use of alternating bands of limestone and ironstone is noteworthy.

The Palace of Westminster is unchanged,apart from a missing pinnacle just to the right of the huge Victoria Tower.

The towers at each end of the viaduct can just be distinguished behind the bridge in photograph R67051. The viaduct was the first structure to cross the Runcorn Gap, and was built in the 1860s.

Much of the money for the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock tower is