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The town, separated from The Wolds to the east by thin sandy moors, now mostly afforested, became the main market for a wide area in the 16th century, and changed its name from East to Market Rasen.

THE STRAND has always been at the heart of the town, where people met to trade as well as socialise.

Four thousand years ago, Iron Age folk lived in and around the hillforts of Maiden Castle, Poundbury and the other fortifications of this part of Dorset.

Dronfield lies midway between Chesterfield and Sheffield, and has developed as a commuter town for both.

These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which the men named on them were drawn.

The houses of Middleborough grew up beyond the town walls and the north gate, which was demolished in 1823.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.

Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

Interesting that the Post Office is spelled without the hyphens, but spellings, as we have noted, are a peculiar Welsh idiosyncrasy and every town, village and street can have a slightly or totally dissimilar

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

The Temperance movement was as significant here as it was in many Welsh towns.

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels, a hydropathic establishment and private boarding houses.

Fairlight Glen, two miles east of the town, was a particularly popular walk destination with its romantic sandstone scenery and deep cut valleys or 'glens', a suitably Walter Scottish image.

This was the period when few supermarkets existed and those that did were built in town centres, as most people relied on public transport.

This view shows a working community and this old town still thrives today.

Touring caravan sites are now popular, and several are clustered in this northern area of town.

Here we see the town bridge in Maidenhead with an elegant steamer - the 'Empress of India' - tied up in the foreground.

Godalming was initially an industrial town, noted for its cloth making.

The action-packed scene that is a town street in Edwardian days, with plenty of people going about their business; the only traffic is horse-drawn vehicles.

The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town.

Many of the students who trained here were later employed in the glass industry for which the town is so well known.

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street.