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The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

The architecture of the High Street reflects the wealth that a depressed town gained from its booming boot and shoe industry in later Victorian times.

It was built in 1850 by Joseph Kaye, who was well-known in the town as a merchant, a brewer and the owner of four mills at Folly Hall.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

Before the advent of the car moved shoppers to out-of- town stores, main streets such as this displayed a rich multiplicity of goods, with regional shops trading beside the more well-known

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

One of the most memorable images in the entire Frith archive, this intimate shot of the Cobb wall was inspired by Jane Austen and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

This view shows the rear of the Swan Hotel on the left and the remarkable turret of the Town Hall rising above it.

Such a pretty name, such an ugly town. Linking Madeley and Ironbridge, this area grew rapidly in the 18th century as local industry expanded.

Certainly there would have been confusion between the original title and the burgeoning Dunstable Road just visible in the photograph beyond Christ Church at the top of the hill.

Amesbury dates back to at least 973; it is the nearest town to Stonehenge, and has a population of about 6,000. In 980, Amesbury Abbey was founded for Benedictine nuns.

AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been

This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century

The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion and the Brown Cow.

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive

Lord Zetland had given the town six acres of land, which was developed and opened in 1924; it originally also included tennis courts and gardens, a lake and an aviary.

This was once the town's market place. The later brick frontages here often conceal 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings that had been plastered for preservation.

The town's past industrial importance was partly based on an unpleasant speciality, the manufacture of traps.