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The furniture legacy from this period can be found mainly in the western part of town: many are relatively small two-storey structures up to 100 feet long, and date mostly from the first two decades

The town eventually got its open-air swimming baths. They look so freshly painted and the onlookers are so numerous that we might suspect that this picture was shot on the opening day.

Teignmouth remained a fashionable resort for two centuries, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars when eminent socialites made the town their own.

This monument in Town Hall Square commemorates Lt Col Henry Lane, the distinguished soldier and veteran of the Indian Mutiny.

Stone sets pave Town Green, as it leads through the village towards the railway bridge and station.

The splendid Norman tower of the cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city's skyline.

Originally Station Road, Minehead's Avenue was built in the 1870s to link the newly built railway station with the town centre. Its elegant houses soon became guesthouses, and are now shops.

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for

Widened by returning ex-servicemen in 1925 to cope with increasing road traffic, the bridge retained its elegance and here formed a background for the picnickers, boat hirers and other leisure seekers

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

This view of Derwent Terrace from the river shows the boathouses and boats which were used by visitors to this pleasant spa town.

Somerton was once a thriving medieval town with fairs, markets, trade and inns.

Here we get an idea of just how steep the limestone slopes are upon which the town is built, and how narrow the gorge is through which the river flows.

A delightful gravestone survives in the town's churchyard commemorating Ann Cook who died in 1814: 'On a Thursday she was born, On a Thursday made a bride, On a Thursday broke her leg, And on a Thursday

The town has suffered a great deal over the centuries: it was regularly ransacked and burnt - sometimes by the Welsh, sometimes by the English. There are therefore only a few really old buildings.