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The Village C1955 The centre of Bishop's Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this photograph shows some of the country town's striking Georgian build- ings.

Solid, if plain, buildings on both sides of Fore Street give this district of Hayle the look of a mining town.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift.

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.

The ladies of the town used to meet in Main Street at the Loft Café.

The town sits beside a Roman road across which is the hill of Caer Caradoc.

The steep slopes of The Bank provide a grandstand view of Baildon, a typical Pennine town standing on the edge of Baildon Moor, famous for its enigmatic prehistoric 'cup and ring'-marked stones.

The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.

Such news seems out of place and irrelevant in a street of elegant Victorian villas in a small town in rural Suffolk.

Today many of the old buildings of the old docks, and the mills that lined them, have disappeared.

These industrial buildings, now an engineering works, are a reminder of Ottery's industrial heritage, for the town was famous for the production of serge and lace in previous times.

The town of Poole grew up around the older quays of the great harbour; during these times it was purely functional, catering for mercantile activities, shipping and pottery manufactured from the

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.The famed Kendal bowmen at

Both touring and permanent caravans were used.

Teignmouth remained a fashionable resort for two centuries, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars when eminent socialites made the town their own.

The town eventually got its open-air swimming baths.

The high walls of Petworth House dominate the west side of the town.

The name of the town of Letchworth appears to derive from 'lecha weorthig', 'the farm by the rivulet'.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

Every south coast town had to have its 'Steyne', copying the name from Brighton.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here, and installed his daughter as abbess.

They lie in a north-south axis on the western edge of the town; they measure as high as 22ft 6in, and are as big as the stones at Stonehenge.

Set in the midst of a region of rich and picturesque farms, it developed into an important market centre for the agricultural community.

While the old town up the hill had its origins in the 8th century, the Bexhill everyone knows grew up from the 1880s by the sea as a resort on Earl De La Warr's estate.