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The famous Liver birds, which gave the city its name, look out across the Pier Head from clock towers 295 feet tall, whose faces are each 25 feet in diameter and larger than those of Big Ben

The square tower to its left is the neighbouring Anglican church of St Mark's.

The public house on the right is The White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign.Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's

The late-15th century tower of Holy Trinity church is one of the finest in Cornwall; its west side has carved figures depicting the Trinity, the Annunciation and the Resurrection.

Remains still litter the valley: the odd shape in the field above and to the left of the church tower is an old mine.

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

From the south bank, near Westminster Bridge, completed in 1862, this view shows the bell tower known universally by its great bell, Big Ben.

From 1799 onwards the docks east of the Tower of London were dug, becoming one of the industrial wonders of the world and a tourist attraction!

The view is now changed, with 1960s tower blocks of flats on the skyline. Shoeburyness is now the eastern part of a 'Greater Southend'.

Much of the stone from the abbey tower was used to build the local church a century later. Beauchief Hall was also constructed from the remaining stone.

The tower in North Street belongs to the National School opened in 1874.

On the horizon is the tower of the church at Kirby Hill (left). Also in the village is the Bay Horse Inn (1857).

Displaying characteristic taste and restraint John Prichard, the diocesan architect, left the medieval tower untouched but sympathetically added a vestry and extra aisles.

There is no clock in the tower at this date; the clock was installed as a memorial to those of the parish who fell in the Second World War.

The clock tower was offered to the railway to be built by the station, but the offer was declined – so it was built by the parish church.

An ancient timber-frame building comprising a chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south transept, and an east tower with just one bell, it had been repaired with stone during the 17th century.

Here the photographer looks towards St Mary's 14th-century church tower, with the triangular pediment of the Georgian nave, designed in 1714 by John James, to its right.

Not far outside the village are the twin towers of Sissinghurst Castle with its beautiful gardens, once home to the author Vita Sackville West.

Like its neighbour Luxulyan, this is an all-granite church, but Lanlivery has a tall pinnacled tower (97 feet) which is a local landmark that can be seen from miles away.

The low-gabled tower is oddly positioned, but the site beside the estuary is the most attractive feature.

Where London's other bridges are dignified and utilitarian, Tower Bridge, with its 'daring majesty' cocks a snook at Victorian formality.

The towering chapel of this school dominates the landscape for miles around; its position is wonderful, high above where the South Downs are cut deep by the Adur valley on its way to the sea.

The church is still there, but the Brontes would only recognise the west tower, for the remainder was demolished and rebuilt in 1880.

The church is still there, but the Brontes would only recognise the west tower, for the remainder was demolished and rebuilt in 1880.