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Continuing north-east along Portsmouth Road we reach Godalming, a market town since 1300, its centre now by-passed.

In Tudor times Bewdley was a rich woollen town.

According to a bronze plaque, the fountain was given to the town in 1925 by Councillor Charles Yates, the then Chairman of the Urban District Council,.

South Street, extending over the River Wey Navigation to the station, did not exist until after the arrival of the railway in the town in 1848-1849.

Soaring above the buildings of the town is the spire of St Michael and All Angels' church which was designed by William White, who worked under George Gilbert Scott.

This view of the former mining town has changed little since 1955.

By 1818 the prison within the castle was already considered inadequate despite only having been built in 1779 and plans were drawn up for a new prison in the outer ward.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

The competition to design a new town hall was won by J A Hansom and E Welsh; their outline plans were preferred to those submitted by leading architects such as Charles Barry and Thomas Rickman.

This view looks back towards the town centre.

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

By the mid 7th century around 16,000 tonnes of coal were being brought annually to Newark by river, where they were exchanged for malt and corn.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

We are now in the centre of Eastleigh; in fact, we are looking from the station along Leigh Road, originally a farm track but steadily improved and extended as the town grew.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

The Lion, a fine and historic building, had been largely demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more

Dudley High Street is quite short compared to those in neighbouring towns.

The splendid Norman tower of the Cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city’s skyline.

The artists Stanhope Forbes and Walter Langley settled here in the 1880s to paint the harbour and its fishermen.

Dominating the seafront, this is believed to have been the first-ever free-standing, purpose-built clock tower, and was donated to the town by Mrs Ann Thwaites in 1837.

What weddings and baptisms brought joy to the community from within these walls of All Saints' in olden times?

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small work- shops, stables

This peaceful and idyllic rural scene, with the horse and cart behind a small girl pushing a pram outside the church of St John the Baptist, belies Crawley's mid 19th-century expansion into a railway town