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No riverside town would be complete without a rowing club, and Twickenham Rowing Club was founded in 1860.

This small and delightful riverside town has a bustling quayside with a mix of pleasure boats and commerce in the shape of boat builders and repairers.

The furniture legacy from this period can be found mainly in the western part of town: many are relatively small two-storey structures up to 100 feet long, and date mostly from the first two decades

This rather stern-looking gentleman wearing his best frock coat and gaiters is Isaac Waylen, Town Crier and School Attendance Officer between 1889 and 1911, who lived in St Martin's.

Though a monastery was founded at Jarrow in AD681 by Benedict Biscop, the modern town owes its existence to Charles and George Palmer, who opened a shipyard here in 1851.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

Frost's shop front 1909 Mr Frost's printing works and shop would have been kept busy in a market town like Bridport, producing a local newspaper, bills of sale and stationery for farmers and

As the town's popularity as a holiday resort grew, Victorian streets and shops spread back from the sea.

A hundred years earlier in Eckington there were another five inns and taverns in the town: the Rose and Crown, the Duke of York, the Coach and Horses (whose landlord Jas Robinson was also a spring knife

Once the town manufactured and exported cloth and built ships; it imported tobacco and salted cod, and wool from the Continent for the Devon weaving industry.

This view was taken before the grounds opened as a public park, and it shows not only the high ground level around the keep but also the poor state of the stonework.

The Honeypot Lane Murders Just around the corner from this innovative, crescent-shaped block of 50 town houses is Honeypot Lane.

Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.

A wonderfully varied street scene in this ancient town displays the varied architecture from different centuries in the town's history.

The salt industry both here and at Nantwich suffered as a result of the shelving of a scheme to open the rivers of these towns to navigation.

The place also had a Norman earthwork castle, a motte and bailey type; in later years it was a boot and shoe making town, one of several that thrived around Northampton.

This view gives an idea of the regular and spacious layout of the town.

The tower of Newbury's splendid parish church can be seen from various vantage points around the town.

Market Drayton stands on a hill-top site overlooking the River Tern, which flows in the foreground of this photograph, and the settlement probably originated in prehistoric times.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664; until 1867 it was the town house of the earls of Shrewsbury.

The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town.

The Coinage Hall was the scene of the twice-yearly coinage sessions, when mine owners brought their tin into town for assay and auction.

The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time.