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Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could - and did - trade up-river as far as Langport.

Every year, children from the town's churches, chapels, and Sunday schools dressed in white and paraded through the streets. The custom survived until recent times.

Bangor is a bustling commuter and seaside town, conveniently situated about thirteen miles from Belfast.

Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.

The main road falls away to cross the River Swift and goes on to Rugby. The two towns are the places where the jet-age began: Sir Frank Whittle was designing and testing in the area from 1937.

There were originally seven gates into Southampton's old walled town. Walk the walls today and only five can be seen.

The Canongate was where the canons of Holyrood Abbey entered the Old Town. The tolbooth, with its projecting clock, is one of the most famous landmarks on the Royal Mile and dates from 1591.

The Victorian building with the borough coat of arms in the pediment was erected after a public meeting: the town decided 'not only to obtain funds for the purpose of a general rejoicing but also if possible

After demolition, the cupola from the roof tower was used, and can still be seen, on the nearby Metropole Hotel.

There were many more additions by him and his son, A E Street, and they produced a splendid complex of buildings.

A very few years after this photograph was taken, the popular Newnham Pool was closed and its place in the leisure activity role taken by a modern facility dedicated to the philanthropy of the Robinson

It is a little ironic that the town D H Lawrence offended so much by Sons and Lovers now commemorates him, and even has a D H Lawrence Trail.

The present stone bridge replaced earlier ones (the first built in timber by the energetic Bishop Alexander in the 12th century); it dates from 1775, with footways and cast iron railings added in 1848

Sir Edwin Maufe's dignified and apt cathedral was only completed in 1966, with much of the work dating from the period spanned by this book.

It was a substantial gift to the town from John Carr (1723-1807), the famous architect who never forgot his roots, even though he twice became the Lord Mayor of York.

The town's first gas lamp was also on Queen Street.

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

Not far away from the Bull Ring are displayed the town stocks and whipping post.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

The department store Shirer & Lance's was founded in the 1830s, and occupied most of the Colonnade. It ceased trading in 1979, but it is remembered by many.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east. It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

The large parish church is mostly 13th- century, but it was heavily restored by the great architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, a native of Buckinghamshire, between 1849 and 1869.

The name reminds us that the Duke of Devonshire once owned the rights to the town's markets and fairs.

This perfect walking territory is within yards of the town.