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High above the East Cliff promenade are the turrets and flags of The Royal Bath Hotel, one of the town's leading resorts at this time.

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

We are looking south, with a good view of Yarm Town Hall, built in 1710 and standing in splendid isolation in the centre of the High Street.

Charles Lamb, the essayist, came to live in the country town of Enfield two centuries ago.

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

The name of the town was first recorded in AD 955 as Andeferas.

The town was once a shipbuilding centre and the chief port of Merioneth, with a large trade in flannel and knitted stockings.

On the left, between A G Day's, the stationer, newsagent and bookseller's shop and the Angel Inn with its illuminated sign, is the old archway topped by the town clock, all of which are owned by the

Behind it is the Town Hall of 1825, containing council chambers, a market hall and a police station.

This 1960s photograph shows how uncomfortably the Victorian Town Hall at Dewsbury sat with the recently-built modernistic shop and office block opposite.

The Lion, the town's main hotel, became a church, and Baigent's the draper's next door a restaurant.

Early closing day gives a peaceful air to this normally busy market town, built around a six-acre lake known as Diss Mere: local tradition says that it is bottomless.

The photograph gives the impression that the town is waiting for someone or some-thing to lift it from gloom and despondency.

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

The population in 1960 was 50,000, yet there are only about 75 cars parked at the station, as most people worked in the town.

We are looking in the opposite direction from 72955 (pages 52-53) along the Esplanade, with the tower of the town church of Holy Trinity to the left of the clock tower.

The harbour was begun in 1817, and ever since has been the principal terminus of the Holyhead run.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the

Wroxeter was the fourth largest town in Roman Britain.

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods; it also became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

The international aspect of the town's trade can be seen by the sign outside Joseph Hird's grocery in the centre of the picture.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century.

The castle dominates the old town, originally founded by the Romans who built the first castle - one of their chain of forts along the Saxon shore.