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Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion. This view looks towards the New Brig and Main Street.

In the background a trolleybus is about to pass a tram as it heads towards the Town Hall. Like the electric tramcar, the trolleybus drew its power from overhead and did not require rails.

The 12th-century tower and spire of St Mary's Church viewed from the Market Place, a symbol of the mediaeval prosperity brought to this little town from wool-trading.

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

Gateway to the Dales and the first town in Airedale, Skipton was a centre for sheep and cattle rearing; even its name is derived from Sheeptown. In the distance is the tower of Holy Trinity Church.

But for a small section of the castle, the church remains the only tangible link with the old town's medieval past.

Situated on Abbey Street next to the Swan Hotel, the New Jerusalem Church was one of the most striking buildings in the town.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Their more knowledgable caddies have not been so foolhardy, and are well out of range. The Grand Hotel overlooks every amenity that the town has to offer.

The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

Parallel to Stratford Road and to the south of it is one of the grid of streets that were laid out for the town from the 1840s, starting at the east and then expanding westward as land was released

Detail abounds in this more intimate shot of the row of shops immediately east from the Town Hall and the Greyhound Hotel. All the windows are full of offerings from floor to ceiling.

The town of St Helens derives its name from the early chapel dedicated to the saint.

By its completion in December 1893, 17,000 'navvies' had shifted 54 million cubic yards of soil and rocks to create the 35.5-mile-long canal at the then staggering cost of £15 million.

The first stone castle was built by David I; it was extensively modified around 1411 following the sack of the town by the Lord of the Isles the previous year.

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.

Looking in the direction of the town, the Holt estate lay behind the trees on the left. Two large gas lamps flank the lych-gate to St Paul's church on the right.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

During the Middle Ages, the town's prosperity grew with the woollen industry, and it became an important yarn market.

We are looking west from the canal towpath towards the town, with the church spire in the centre distance.

On the left is a terrace of brick houses and shops built c1865. Barclay's Bank closed in 2000, but the Co-op still trades from the ground floor, although it now has a mid-1990s shop front.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

Now known as the Stokesay Castle Inn, this hotel overlooks a new tourist attraction in the town - a museum of the Shropshire countryside.