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Like the town hall tower, it dominates for miles around, and is also in a monumental Baroque style.

The 'Mother and Child' sculpture, behind the children, now forms part of Basildon's logo, such has been the extent to which people associate it with the town.

The town pillory stood in this Market Place, and a pleasure fair was also held here.

Here we see the Albert Edward Dock basin, looking from the entrance towards the town.

The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus.

Other sports are popular in the town, notably cricket, and the club's ground is certainly in a very attractive setting; it has enthralled appreciative crowds since 1894.

The impressive Victoria Tower of the Town Hall rises to a height of 162 feet.

Here we have a magnificent view of the broad sweep of the breezy seafront at Dover, with the castle overshadowing the town from four hundred feet above, and the Roman Pharos clearly visible beside the

Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.

Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.

Thomas Telford's three-arched stone bridge dates from 1798 and cost £9000.

Today the great conurbation that is Bournemouth has absorbed older settlements nearby and has linked up with the ancient towns of Christchurch and Poole.

The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

This is the town's main street from Telford's bridge, looking towards the mid 18th-century church designed by E & T Woodward.

This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.

Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.

Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

With the arrival of the railway age in Swindon it started to grow, and many of the buildings you can see in this photograph are clearly Victorian.

Salmon still mass below the weirs in spring and the town's former mills have found a new life as apartment blocks.

Chelmsford had always been primarily a market-town. As

The Anglo-Saxons almost certainly fortified Wallingford, and there was once an important castle here, though little of it survives today.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down 29 locks to the valley below.

The small rural hamlet of Corey's Mill, now completely absorbed into the New Town of Stevenage, was once dominated by its windmill, which burnt down in 1878.