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The clock tower stands just inside the main entrance to Queen's Park.

Victoria Tower (1897) flies the school flag. To the far right is the cross on the school chapel.

Money was left for the building of the stone church and tower in the will of Jane Salisbury, tragically killed on the railway in 1922. She was owner of Myerscough Hall.

The tower of the parish church of St Nicholas can just be seen in the distance. At this date Church Street, leading out of the Market Place, was very narrow. It was widened in 1962.

The tower is 110 feet high and, because of its prominent position, it was bombed in the Second World War. It was repaired in 1956-8.

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

This is one of modern Maidstone's many tower blocks.

There are 13 massive towers in pentagonal, hexagonal and octagonal designs.

Note the unbuttressed west tower and the roof of the south aisle in poor condition, just three years before restoration.

The building with the tower is known as Low Lighthouse, although it has now been converted into the Maritime Museum. Built in 1818, it replaced an earlier wooden structure.

The tower in the background is part of Bloxham School.

When the tower was found to be unstable, it was strengthened and the spire raised to 182 feet. The roofs of four maltings mark the towpath of the River Stort.

A Norman building stood until 1724, a second was completed in 1824 (its tower still stands at the corner of its successor) and the third was consecrated in 1886.

The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.

The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap. It had five patent shuttered sails, as is indicated by the five-way cross on the front of the windshaft, and a fantail.

North Hill climbs towards High Street, just beyond St Peter's church tower seen in the distance.

It is well-known for its wonderful old church, which has towers built by the Saxons and Normans. It also has a historic old abbey, now a nunnery, with walls of the old Saxon church.

Inside the tower can be found six bells. A replica of this church at nearby Wilsden was also consecrated on the same day, 1 November 1826.

The breathtaking outline of Tom Tower dominates St Aldates on the far side of Carfax. Morris Garages and the premises of Barclays Bank are on the right.

Entered through Edgar Tower (just visible here above the rooftops), or through the Watergate, College Green is a delightful quadrangle of mostly 17th- and 18th-century houses, forming part of King's School

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers. Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

Panoramic views of the city can be seen from the top of this tower, which was built in the 12th century to replace a previous wooden castle.