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A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

This view shows the tower of St Peter's Church from the now much-municipalised Reading bank. The church tower was rebuilt in 1878.

This view, until 1886 concealed by houses, shows the tall, elegant west tower of the parish church now dominating St Mary's Butts.

The Deanery Tower 1922 When the Deanery Tower was built in the latter part of the 15th cen- tury by Suffolk's Archdeacon, William Pykenham, it was supposed that it would be the gateway to a palace

Though there was a castle here that withstood a siege in 1335, the five-storey tower-house dates from the late 14th to early 15th century.

Looking out over Druridge Bay, the rectangular three-storey tower of the late 14th to early 15th centuries takes its name from the Cresswell family.

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

A comfortable Tudor farmhouse beside a 15th-century pele, Turton Tower is associated with Humphrey Chetham, remembered for the free library, school and hospital that he founded in Manchester.

The tide is in, and the sea is a millpond fringed by bathing machines in this view looking from the lawns east of the Wish Tower.

Apart from this sundial, there is the Owery in the Minster tower, a working astronomical clock made by a Glastonbury monk in c1325.

The six hundred-year-old tower of the church at Stourpaine is the oldest part of the building, for much of the rest is modern.

Taken close to Junction station, this photograph shows the North Devon Infirmary, the white building below the church tower.

This octagonal wooden lantern rises out of the larger stone octagonal tower, both of which were erected at the initiative of Alan of Walsingham, sacrist and later prior, after the original tower fell in

The highly controversial sale of the site around 1960 resulted in the demolition of the ruins and the construction of the towering Pearl Assurance building in 1967.

Here we see the two square towers flanking the archway; these are in turn supported by a pair of octagonal towers. Between the two sets of towers there was once a moat spanned by a drawbridge.

Whereas Prichard's work on the 15th century Jasper Tower was very much in tune with the prevailing conservative medieval taste his South Tower (c1867), with open parapet and tall octagonal spire, was

The spire to the left of New Brighton Tower belonged to the Liverpool Home for Aged Mariners, but like the tower, it too has gone.

Further along is the Timeball Tower (centre), built to give Greenwich Mean Time to passing ships by dropping a large ball down a shaft at the top of the tower at exactly 1pm every day.

This was ruined in 1403 during Owain Glyndwr's revolt, and only the motte and a couple of towers remain. The tower has been further reduced since 1951 to provide stone for garden walls.

This tower was once linked by a chain to Barker's Tower on the opposite side of the river to stop craft entering the city without paying a tax.

Despite this, the tower had to be rebuilt when it fell apart in the early 20th century. The Village Hall with its bell tower (left) was the village school from 1874 to 1971.

The stately 212ft-high Perpendicular tower of Derby's Cathedral of All Saints, which dominates this view of Iron Gate, still exerts a powerful influence on the county's biggest city.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

There were two towers, one at Fowey, and this one at Polruan, and it was between these that the chain was stretched.