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The pleasing Town Hall commanding the main street was built in 1829, and its classically-styled clock tower was added six years later.

Dominating the seafront, this is believed to have been the first-ever free-standing, purpose-built clock tower, and was donated to the town by Mrs Ann Thwaites in 1837.

Nearest the camera is the north-west tower, hexagonal in design, and to its right is the postern gate.

The old water tower forms an interesting backdrop to a pleasure steamer heading upstream. From the 1880s to the 1930s, taking a steamer trip from Worcester was an enormously popular pastime.

Low Petergate is one of the many narrow side-streets which lead up towards the towers of York Minster, seen in the centre background.

In the middle distance is the Jubilee Clock Tower, built to commemorate the long reign of Queen Victoria. The ladies are carrying parasols to protect their complexions from the heat of the sun.

Like the castle, the church was also a casualty of battle; Cromwell's men apparently used it as a gun emplacement, causing serious damage to the nave and tower.

Much of what remains is Norman and Early English; the mighty tower was rebuilt in the 13th century. A piece of original Axminster carpet hangs within.

Three girls pose on the wooden bridge leading to the ivy-clad south-west towers.

ruined gatehouse of Llandaff Castle was probably built in the early 14th century, though it was remodelled a couple of hundred years later when mullion and transomed windows were installed in its western tower

On the extreme left in this photograph the pinnacles of the church's 120-foot Perpendicular central tower can be seen rising above the buildings.

This view is rich in detail, including the station buildings, the footbridge, a water tower, semaphore signals, lamps and very tall telegraph poles.

The tower is nearly 90ft high, and the whole church is built in imitation mediaeval style.

This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still stand.

The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's Church.

St Cuthbert's is a medieval church that was entirely rebuilt after its tower fell in 1851.

This view shows the Clock Tower and a surprisingly empty Market Place.

All Saints' Church, higher up the village, has a massive Norman tower, and the church is built in the local iron-rich brown limestone.

The clock on the church tower was a later addition of around 1912.

Built in1867, it has a square tower and a pyramidal spire.The whole area is now very close to the greatly expanded and very busy Gatwick Airport, which was built in the 1960s partly on the site of

The church lay east of the circular garden, and Queen Victoria's statue is roughly where the detached bell tower was situated.

The church with the central rose window and tower (left) is the Park Street Methodist church, built in 1885–86.

The tower with its tall lancet windows divided by louvres and its broach spire, designed by Henry Woodyear in 1862, blew down in 1947.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still