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When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.

A substantial remodelling of the town took place during the 19th century - the Town Hall, with its Tuscan porticos and fine bell tower, was built at that time.

This Snowdonian village on the Holyhead Road (A5) lies at the mouth of the pass of Nant Ffrancon, beneath the famous Penrhyn slate quarries, once the largest in the world and still producing slate today

Like Westgate Road, Chaloner Street was opened up in Victorian times, in this case in the 1860s to connect the town centre to the recently opened railway station, which served the town until

The Metropole Hotel, beloved as a modern day conferencing venue and purveyor of Victoriana, looks a little sleepy in this post-war photograph.

The town also acquired that other symbol of Georgian respectability and status: Assembly Rooms, in Bell Street.

When the half-timbered Queen's Head Inn was being built in Newark in the 16th century, the largest town in the East Midlands was probably Leicester, closely followed by Nottingham.

The hillside town of Yeadon lies to the north of Bradford, and is today perhaps most famous as the site of the Leeds-Bradford Airport.

The county town of Bodmin has a distinguished history, with origins dating back to the time of the Normans.

The main thoroughfare through the seafaring town has always been busy with pedestrians and traffic.

Sherman Ferris`s bakery (left) used to stock ice cream, and was therefore much-frequented by children.

The smooth slopes of 3,054-ft Skiddaw dominates the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

The wide Main Street of Egremont, watched over by the clock tower of the Victorian Town Hall, is typical of many Cumbrian towns.

Daniel Defoe, speaking of Leominster, described it as having 'nothing very remarkable about it, but that it is a well-built, well- inhabited town.

Portcawl's dock was closed in 1907, and its inner harbour was filled in during the 1920s, but the town had recovered somewhat by the time this photograph was taken.

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Daniel Defoe, speaking of Leominster, described it as having 'nothing very remarkable about it, but that it is a well-built, well- inhabited town.

This churchyard stands at the top of Thundersley Church Road, well removed from the bustle of the town below.

Banbury's splendid Town Hall with its noble entrance and tower, built in the 15th-century Gothic style, opened in 1854.

With New Town status and under the aegis of the Development Corporation, Bracknell began to expand rapidly.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

As one of the town's major employers, Kodak gave £10,000 for a new children's playground to be built in Gadebridge Park to replace the one lost by the construction of the Plough roundabout.

In the 1950s Kettering was still an important boot and shoe town, specialising in heavy work boots.

Dominating this area of the town is St Mary's Church.