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Note the change of illumination outside the Town Hall. On the right is the Exchange Building in its incarnation as the Majestic Cinema.

Land behind the Town Hall was used for industry for many years: the Spring Mill buildings and the cupola of Pleck Brass Works are visible to the right.

Situated on precarious cliffs, the town has suffered greatly from erosion over the years.

The higgledy-piggledy development of this small country market town which resulted from its unusual position on the county border of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire until 1896 is evident in this overall

A small medieval market town, Petworth is a delightful tangle of lanes and alleys.

The pier was 18th-century, and the Rhenish tower added early in the 1800s by a General Rawdon.

These views of the Embankment Gardens clearly show the results of continuing are and attention. The town's War Memorial reminds of the sacrifices of World Wars I and II, and the Korean War.

It is early morning or a summer's evening in this significant mid-Kent town. A good selection of traders line the left side of the street, including W J Dolding & Son and a bakery.

The centre of Steyning includes rows of picturesque gabled houses and period buildings.

The town of Woodstock was once a favourite manor and hunting lodge for English kings. The Black Prince was born here.

Wells is, of course, famed for its superb cathedral and the Bishop's Palace. The town is also a very fine one, with much of its medieval plan intact.

Middleham was the former capital of Wensleydale and a market town. As well as the weekly market there were annual fairs, and the close proximity of two abbeys must also have stimulated trade.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

With their grimy jackets and trousers, they give every impression of having endured an uncomfortable passage.

The town grew during the 1840s with the sinking of the first coal mine in the locality.

The market town of Haltwhistle straddles the present-day A69 a few miles from the border with Cumbria.

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

Helmsley is considered to be one of the area's more attractive market towns. This is the Market Square, with All Saints' Church and the monument to Lord Feversham.

The Town Hall on the left has a meat market on the ground floor, and butchers have come out to pose for the photograph.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

An easier way to get from one part of town to the other would be to take the cable car. It was opened in 1892, when a ticket up or down cost 1d (one old penny).

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century Harbour Office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships captains.

Like the town hall tower, it dominates for miles around, and is also in a monumental Baroque style. The pond is now replaced be the uncompromisingly modern Mercury Theatre, built in 1972.