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Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community. The inner rampart would have had a wooden stockade.

Talgarth is a small town a few miles south of Hay-on-Wye. Its narrow streets today are almost always congested with passing traffic.

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom was established in 1928, and has remained popular with visitors ever since.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

Wollaston expanded farther after World War II and this view is of former council housing, part of an estate built in the south-east of the town.

It was a boom town during the 19th-century iron-mining era, and takes its name from the remains of a 12th-century Cistercian nunnery, now built into the parish church.

Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep. Stricklandgate, the northern extension of Highgate, is one of Kendal's main thoroughfares.

Besides being empowered to replace the bridge, they cleared away numerous houses near St Paul's Church and the medieval Guildhall in their zeal - no doubt the area was in serious decay.

The original intention was that there should be a tower on top of the Town Hall but the local people felt it looked quite grand enough as it was and so did not bother to add it.

The founders of the modern Billingham Town Centre felt the need to introduce features which helped to take away the starkness of the new surroundings.

Despite the fact that post-war rationing was still in force, this market town was thriving. On the left is an optician's, A Bateman's.

Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.

This is a view over Low Town from about one hundred feet above the Severn.

Looking east from Blucher Street this view shows how steeply the chalk hills rise behind the town, still undeveloped.

Their clothes were strong, too, and water-resistant, especially the knitted jumpers which were made in the town with specific designs for individual families, a very similar idea to the tartan of

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

The strangely landlocked lighthouse was safely positioned away from the cliff edge but not too central in the town, where the smoke from coal fires might have obscured the light.