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Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

Despite its name, Newhaven is anything but new, for it dates from Henry VIII's time when the River Ouse was canalised into its present course, and the town absorbed the old village of Meeching.

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory

This is the original part of Cheltenham, pre-dating the grander areas that grew up when the town rose to prominence as a fashionable spa.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

Around a hundred years before this picture was taken, the cobblestones of Newark Market Place would have echoed to the clatter of stagecoaches and carriers' waggons.

During the 18th and 19th centuries many buildings (including the old railway station) were constructed with rock quarried from the beach.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

Despite carrying the title of Ypres Castle in 1912, this structure was called the Badding Tower when it was built in the 13th century, and was a place of refuge during French raids on the town.

Even in the mid-fifties, Edenbridge retained some of its atmosphere as a small agricultural town, strung out along the Roman road which reached out across the Weald from Lewes to London.

The idea for Harlow New Town dates from the late 1940s. It was seen as a way to relieve some of the congestion in London.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Old Aylesbury was largely confined to the hilltop area; the surrounding land was somewhat marshy (and unhealthy).

It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges. Even the flower beds are still planted and maintained.

We look eastwards from the bushes and wall of The Grove (left). This large Victorian villa was destroyed by fire in 1952, which enabled widening of the street.

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

This is the busy main street of the town. Lyndon Sims' well-advertised record shop (note the HMV banner, left) is now a beautician's.

Here, shoppers were offered an impressive choice of produce right in the centre of the city, just opposite the tram and trolleybus stops outside the town hall.

As we pass beneath the bridge, still on the Egham bank, the 18th-century Swan Hotel on the right now also occupies the boathouse and garage in front of it, behind the ladies with their parasols.

This village was anciently known as Eightham, and was once a market town, with a Whit-Wednesday fair called Cockscomb Fair.

This is the busy main street of the town. Lyndon Sims' well-advertised record shop (note the HMV banner, left) is now a beautician's.

On the left is Bognor's pier, one of the town's more familiar features. Constructed in 1865, the structure later became something of a liability and had to be rebuilt in 1910.

Promenading in the afternoon, these late Victorians are out to see - and to be seen. A group of London businessmen founded the town in 1837.

In this view the trees are more mature and obscure the long facades of this eleven hundred foot long road.