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Rebuilt in 1867 by John Loughborough Pearson, the architect of the eastern extension of Wakefield Cathedral, the parish church of St Helen looks down on the town's market place.

We head away from Cheddar to Wedmore, a small town in the fork of a valley on the north side of the ridge that stretches west from Wells. It looks across the Levels to the Mendips.

The area has tended to be a problem for the council, as there is a strong temptation to create a car park in front of the Town Hall, but praise be, at the moment it remains grassed and treed.

As a relatively new town, Bournemouth was able to develop as a holiday resort unencumbered by the street pattern and buildings of an older settlement; its main purpose has always been to cater for thousands

To the left of the River Stour is the Bell Hotel; the town records report that the mayor 'presented King Charles II with a glass of sack at the Bell tavern door' when his Majesty rode in

The Baker Street to Rickmansworth line had already been electrified using the London Transport Underground network in January 1925 as part of the programme to promote the new villages and towns of Metroland

Over the years the town has expanded considerably; nowadays, many local inhabitants commute to work elsewhere.

This town developed around the ironworks, which were founded by Crawshay Bailey in 1846.

Now demolished, the company operate a modern - and busy - factory on the edge of town.

At various times it incorporated a boarding school, shops, private residences and - as the name suggests - the town's museum. Central Park now extends to the iron bridge.

As we look west along Friar Street from in front of the Town Hall, the amount of rebuilding is evident: the occasional older building survives amid a lot of neo-Georgian dating from the 1920s to

The nave of St Mary's acted as the parish church for the town, while the large chancel was used by a secular College of Canons, responsible to the King, whose duty was to pray for members of the

Business interests in the town realised they had to do something, and a canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1793.

Dr Ingles was walking in the town when he heard pistol shots. A boy from the school, Astley, claimed that Mr Rowell, a grocer, had supplied him with gunpowder for a cork gun.

One in desperation has left his gear on the bank and has paddled into the river to assist the other hopefuls in an attempt to locate some fish.

The centre of Staines, like that of many other towns in the vicinity of London, has been rebuilt during the last century.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Many shops have changed today, and the Aberdare Furnishing Company store (third from the left) is now B Wise.

The London Crematorium Company had anticipated a population explosion and bought its land cheaply in 1902.

An excellent view of the cliff lift or 'incline tramway', still serving the needs of visitors to the town today.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw over one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

Its railway and pier, both now gone, prompted ambitious plans to transform the town into a major seaside resort similar in size to Brighton or Bournemouth, but the scheme failed to make the grade.

More evidence of Coronation flags and bunting is shown in this view of Wood Street, Wakefield, looking up towards the clock tower of the Town Hall, built in 1880 in the French Gothic style by T E Collcutt