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In the centre of the town are the ruins of Rothesay Castle, once a royal residence, and said to have been built about the year 1100.

The town, a prosperous agricultural centre, consists mainly of this long street, with its attractive lines of trees, which widens at its west end into a picturesque boulevard with grass verges.

Centre right, the white gable was hidden by Vines Corner, seen in view 70432. There is some townscape benefit in seeing more of St Paul's Church spire and tower, I suppose.

The Guildhall is in the centre, and the Gates Memorial drinking fountain to the left.

By that date, however, Lynn had already declined in status as a port, and Thetford never gained the prominence as a trading centre it expected.

At the top of the flight is a Visitor Centre with plenty of information, and it is possible to walk down the flight.

In the centre of the photograph is the white tower of the Pavilion Theatre.

The mosaic floor pictured shows in the centre a winged cupid riding a dolphin, with sea panthers and sea horses in the surrounding semi-circles.

In the centre foreground of the picture stands St Peter's church, intact at this time, built out of locally quarried Triassic red sandstone and identified by its unusual helm-roof tower.

In the picture is the Italianate Town Hall designed by Brightwen Binyon, which was demolished in 1971 after being replaced by a new civic centre at West Park.

Yalding was once a substantial market centre, but was desolated by the plague four times in the 16th century.

It is now home to the National Mountaineering Centre at Plas Brenin, but has been known for many years for its superb view of the Snowdon 'horseshoe'.

The house (now a Town Council Community Centre), the stable block (now the Town Museum) and the immediate gardens eventually became the home in 1902 of Dr William Stainthorpe, who extended the house

Was the Millennium Dome at Greenwich based on Kingswinford shopping centre? Perhaps we should be told!

A late Edwardian scene before development took place along Grand Parade, and when grassy sand dunes filled the space where the Embassy Centre is now situated.

In this photograph, taken a few years after 56473 (pages 30-31), horse carriages still await their fares in the centre of Brook Street.

It was also a good centre for steamer excursions.

Inverkip joined in the burnings, becoming a notorious centre for following the Bible's demand that, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

It is a popular centre for yachting and for boating trips in the Firth and to the Kyles of Bute. Here we see the esplanade with the pebble beach in evidence.

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

To the right is the town hall of 1867, now the Guildhall Centre, while the house to its right was replaced by a library and museum in the 1950s.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

We can see the signs of the industry in this charming view - crab and lobster pots are stacked on the pier, and the premises of Dawson's, the fish salesman, are beside the sea wall, centre left.

The house left centre was St Agnes, and became a doctor's surgery. The River Inn has now been built there.