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Fixtures were suspended on the outbreak of war and the FA Cup was stowed away in the strongroom in the basement of the Guildhall until 1945.

Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times; it owes much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.

Dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, Westoning's parish church closely follows other church architecture in Bedfordshire villages, being in the Early English style with battlements and buttresses and a tower

Hunstanton's chief feature is its distinctive white and red banded cliffs, which rise from nothing at this point to a towering 30 metres just 300 metres further north.

This is a picture of tranquillity perhaps, but the Gipping was effectively a canal with a tow path, made to assist the carriage of goods upstream as far as Stowmarket.

The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time. Hardy was fond of sitting in the Minster with only the organist and his music for company.

It owes its continued existence to the patronage of Saxon kings and its later adoption by the Normans.

White Nancy is a tower situated on the ridge to the south of the town, and is said to have been built by a member of the Gaskell family to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, and to be named after one

To the right behind the houses is Tower Hill, the site of Gourock Castle. Built in 1747 the castle was demolished before the Great War.

Situated at the northern top of the green is the metal sign, showing a tower mill. It was erected by the Westleton Carnival Committee in 1963.

An excellent view of the gable end of this church showing the 13th century lancet windows and above them the roof-line of the original nave.

The Royal Marine Hotel on the left has now succumbed to a towering ten storey block of flats, Metropole Court, one of three architectural disasters along the sea front.

An excellent view of the gable end of this church showing the 13th century lancet windows and above them the roof-line of the original nave.

Laleham's charming parish church has a tower dating back to 1732; it has been altered somewhat since this photograph was taken.

The church was originally a plain rectangular building with a tower, but by 1852 galleries were added to provide more seating and an organ was installed.

The simple little 13th-century parish church of the Holy Cross at Upper Langwith, east of Bolsover and close to the border of Nottinghamshire, may not have a tower, but it is nevertheless a gem of Perpendicular

Originally a smock mill, and rebuilt as a tower mill, it fell into disrepair during the Second World War.

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.

This Victorian photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse and was used by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century astronomer and scientist, as an observatory.

This photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse.

Longdon's church, seen here behind the trees, has a tower and spire dating from the 14th century. Much of the rest of the building was replaced in the 18th and 19th centuries.

It is a splendid example of High Victorian Gothic designed by Henry Woodyer, with a tower and spire 165 feet high.

St Mary's Church, just visible amongst the trees, was rebuilt with a tower after the steeple fell off the original building in 1792.