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The name of the town was first recorded in AD 955 as Andeferas. Andover was a municipal borough as long ago as the reign of King John, and later became an established centre for the wool trade.

The town was once a shipbuilding centre and the chief port of Merioneth, with a large trade in flannel and knitted stockings. Today, the Three Peaks Race starts here.

On the left, between A G Day's, the stationer, newsagent and bookseller's shop and the Angel Inn with its illuminated sign, is the old archway topped by the town clock, all of which are owned by the

Behind it is the Town Hall of 1825, containing council chambers, a market hall and a police station. The horse-drawn coach is perhaps waiting for custom from the Elephant and Castle Hotel opposite.

This 1960s photograph shows how uncomfortably the Victorian Town Hall at Dewsbury sat with the recently-built modernistic shop and office block opposite.

The Lion, the town's main hotel, became a church, and Baigent's the draper's next door a restaurant.

Early closing day gives a peaceful air to this normally busy market town, built around a six-acre lake known as Diss Mere: local tradition says that it is bottomless.

The photograph gives the impression that the town is waiting for someone or some-thing to lift it from gloom and despondency.

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

The population in 1960 was 50,000, yet there are only about 75 cars parked at the station, as most people worked in the town.

We are looking in the opposite direction from 72955 (pages 52-53) along the Esplanade, with the tower of the town church of Holy Trinity to the left of the clock tower.

The harbour was begun in 1817, and ever since has been the principal terminus of the Holyhead run.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the

Wroxeter was the fourth largest town in Roman Britain. Today little remains above ground level.

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods; it also became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

The international aspect of the town's trade can be seen by the sign outside Joseph Hird's grocery in the centre of the picture. It advertises him as a 'French and Italian Warehouseman'.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was known as Saltre in 1210, and had become Salterne by 1405.

The castle dominates the old town, originally founded by the Romans who built the first castle - one of their chain of forts along the Saxon shore.

The Town Hall is showing the grime of the passing years. The bus shelter rather spoiling its frontage was for those people waiting to go to Haslingden and Bacup.

Here we see the narrow main street of this north Norfolk market town. The road sign on the left depicts a torch, and warns of a school just around the corner.

As a market town, Fakenham serves the needs of a wide area of villages and farms - as is suggested by the presence of the main national banks.

Hingham was an important market town in the Middle Ages.

The spectacular Market Cross was built in about 1600, replacing one burnt down in the major town fire of that year.