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Chalton Down Mill was a brick tower windmill located on a remote hill top overlooking the main London to Portsmouth road. It was powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail.

The clock tower on the far side of the bridge belonged to an important tin smelting works which operated throughout most of the 18th and 19th centuries before closing in 1891.

The squat tower is thought to have been rebuilt in 1384. Inside, there is a striking Norman font and a lectern of 1509.

The other solid building in the village was the old vicarage, a former much-altered pele- tower with a barrel-vaulted ground floor.

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

Little has changed since this picture was taken, save that the clock tower of 1887 is now painted blue and white.

Scaffolding is in place on one of the Minster towers, as serious repairs were taking place.

The Cross is dominated by the tower of St Nicholas's Church - said to have been originally designed for St Martin's- in-the-Fields in London.

The parish church with its octagonal tower and spire rises over the roofs.

Prominent in the middle distance is the Midland Railway Company's station, recently completely re-built and modernised, and beyond that rise the tower of the Town Hall and the famous twisted spire of the

Here we have a closer view of the impressive entrance to Nonsuch Park Palace, with its stuccoed white walls and the prominent three-storey central tower incorporating angle buttresses, battlements and

Just visible in this photograph is the church of St Mary Magdalene, which has a large and striking tower. Inside are various old brasses, together with the royal arms of George I.

To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

The chancel is 13th-century, and the tower is thought to be the oldest surviving building in Oxford. On the left is the old Clarendon Hotel.

Christ Church, otherwise known as 'The House', can be seen on the right, with Wren's splendid Tom Tower rising above it.

The town climbs increasingly steeply away from the sea to the west of the Wish Tower, with an expansive green- sward, known as the Western Lawns, between the much lower promenade and the buildings fronting

The Dock Master's Office stands on the left, with its clock tower. An impressive marina is now established nearby.

The tower in the background is of the church of St Peter in Trusthorpe village.

The church is an angular, aisleless flint building with a tall nave and an impressive west tower with stepped battlements.

Built in 1787, this fine tower mill is listed as an Ancient Monument. It is in an excellent state of preservation, and the public has limited access. Close by is St Theresa's Catholic church.

On the left is the huge D-shaped tower built in the late 13th century by Roger Bigod III. It is protected against attack by battering ram or by undermining with spur bastions.

The tower was a lookout tower, and many a sailor has been grateful after being rescued by the men who once manned this station.

The remains of a Roman hypercaust, the heating system for a Roman bath, were discovered in Bridge Street in 1863 and subsequently relocated to the gardens by the Water Tower.

Another view, this time showing a close-up of the abbey church, revealing the square tower and the four light east window. The abbey was sacked in Cromwell's time and has been ruinous ever since.