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A smart two-seater convertible is parked outside the imposing Barclays Bank, which had been built in 1910 as the Boston & Spalding Bank.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

The town is named after the grange, or storage place for grain, belonging to the monks of Cartmel Priory.

Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.

Along with Mill Street and Jordangate, Chestergate was one of the first streets to be properly paved, and, more importantly, to be provided with surface drainage.

The town was a centre for brewing, malting, tanning and mining as well as staging Monday, Thursday and Saturday markets.

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus. After Wolverhampton, Walsall is the largest of the Black Country towns.

Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.

A cart horse of Dickens & Co, brewers and wine and spirits merchants, waits patiently between trips. Lighter loads were taken around town by handcart.

The finest feature is its tower with angle volutes and vases crowned by a slim spire.

It is known to Worcester folk as the Glover's Needle because of its slenderness and height, and because this part of town was the main gloving area when the trade still flourished.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

Further up into the Market Place from G66002, we see the town's library at number 14 Market Place (left) before its move to new premises behind Westgate in the early 1960s.

Mills crowd in towards the town centre, following the course of the river Roach and its tributary the Spodden. Textile mills reached their peak of prosperity at this time.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

Its core collection, gathered together by Philpot's sisters at their home in Silver Street, was moved down the hill in stages, but the Philpot Museum did not open to the general public until

This tiny cathedral city stands above the confluence of the River Clwyd and its tributary the Elwy. The cathedral is the smallest in Britain.

The saffron crocus, once very important in the dyeing industry, gave the town its name.

To the south of Easington, the new town of Peterlee was developed with the aim of attracting light industry into the area.

On this composite postcard of New Romney, we have the Dungeness lighthouse, built in 1904, and the Romney and Hythe District Light Railway, which started in 1927.

Caerphlly was primarily an industrial and market town.

The new town is gathered around an expansive green. Hunstanton grew out of the hamlet of Hunstanton St Edmund, sited low on the cliffs and owned by the Le Strange family of the Hall.