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Once known as Acres Field, it was here for about 500 years that Manchester's weekly markets and annual fairs were held.

A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.

These whale bones were brought to the town by a local trader, a reminder of Teignmouth's importance as a port.

The lush fields are clear to see, as is the bridge, Raleigh Cabinet Works, and the estuary. The sandbars visible even at half tide illustrate why shipping to the town was lost.

One of the town's most famous landmarks is Matthew Wyatt's magnificent statue of Wellington on horseback.

The Town Trustees agreed to buy the Gardens for £5445 and it was they who undertook a series of improvements.

This elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

The Town Hall stands on the left of this photograph, which was taken from outside the church and looking down Highbridge Street.

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.

At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct. Here primroses and bluebells grow in profusion in the pretty College Woods.

Its name is always pronounced Be'mister as in Barnes's famous poem, and it remains the quaint old market town it always was.

That the area is not disfigured by Victorian brickwork is an indication of how slowly the town developed. The varied facades create a flowing and pleasing harmony.

This view looks towards the town. Whilst still recognisable today, there have been many changes: volumes of extra traffic and street lights are just a couple.

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

The elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park. The house itself became a restaurant.

A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.

Workington, on the mouth of the River Derwent, owes its growth mainly to the coal and steel industries, but it has always been slightly overshadowed by the larger town of Whitehaven to the south.

It is a sunny day in the pleasant little town in the years leading up to the First World War.

Thomas Hardy described Swanage as '…a seaside village, lying snugly within two headlands as between a finger and thumb'.

The town has a long commercial history, and was once the home of many prosperous textile merchants.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small workshops, stables and

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small work- shops, stables

The well-known local Dowsett family gave this beautiful moated manor house to the town.