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The Town Pump and Market Cross (centre) have ancient steps and a relatively recent shaft, erected to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897.

In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

The promenade provides a curious facility that seems less user-friendly than we might expect today and is more akin to a stadium.

The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.

Redhill grew from nothing after the building of the London to Brighton road in 1807 and the railway in 1841.

The Norman plan for settlements made Boroughbridge the 44th of the 400 new towns. The Romans had been here from AD 72, when they settled nearby at Aldborough about a mile away.

This is the main shopping area of the town; the architecture matches the period of rapid development after the railway arrived.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

The town was sturdily independent of Brighton, and its character was more sombre and genteel, a characteristic reflected in its old Town Hall.

Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.

This town can be confusing for the visitor, as not only has it two rivers, but also two High Streets.

Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all

Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, bookseller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison. The lamp post on the right marks the site of the town's first post office of 1835.

As nearby Sheffield expanded, so did towns like Oughtibridge in the Don Valley. The river powered mills, but later manufacturing became the mainstay.

The Corporation kept the right to choose the two MPs for the town until 1640. It remained an oligarchy until 1835 when a major reform allowed it to be elected by some of the townspeople.

A quiet lane on the fringes of the town. Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages. In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.

The school (left) was built in 1840, and provided education for the children of Barkway and Reed. This fine building is remarkably original, and stands on the site of the old Market Square.

This photograph shows looms and other equipment installed in a workshop at the technical school; it shows the importance of the cloth industry to the town.

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

The Midland Bank is on the left, with Stead & Simpson's shoe shop next door. Wide streets denote a planned town.

Holyhead has seen a decline in recent years, although Swift was able to write in 1727 that it was 'scurvy, ill-provided and comfortless', so recent trends may have followed a pattern.