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Princetown is an unlikely spot for a town—1400 feet above sea level, on an exposed col between North Hessary Tor (top left, without the TV mast that adorns it today) and South Hessary Tor, and with

This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.

The creeper-clad Dinorben Arms Hotel (left) and the Eleth Hotel provided good quality accommodation in the 1930s.

Military flags hang on the wall of the north aisle (left), for the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry has close associations with the town and church.

The view down the town's busiest trading place begins with grocer and wine merchant Sarah Chapman's shop front (left) facing the Volunteer Inn (far right), where the landlord was Tom Searle.

This view across what is now known as the Peace Gardens towards the mock-Gothic spires of Sheffield's Town Hall has not changed significantly since this photograph was taken.

St Lawrence's Church was built in the Perpendicular style, and features a number of grotesque gargoyles that stare down from the eaves.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

The town's identity is linked to the magnificent white horse cut into the chalk hillside, a landmark which guides the traveller.

As we approach the town, it is possible to see cranes rising above the waterfront of this busy port. Harbour Road is close to the sea. Both the Angel and the next building are clad in weatherboard.

Fore Street once had many thatched cottages and a stream running down one side, but it was rebuilt in the 19th century, when the town prospered with the woollen industry.

Continuing south-east across Ashdown Forest, the tour finishes at Uckfield, a town now by-passed and the terminus of a commuter railway line to London, the continuation to Lewes having been closed.

Upper Rushall Street and Peal Street running north and south from the bottom of the church steps indicate ancient routes to Lichfield and Wednesbury.

Swanage spent much of the 20th century developing as a holiday resort, though the town never seemed quite sure whether to try to appeal to the masses or the more exclusive visitor.

The Palace, designed by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of

This is down-town Lydney in the days when books could be loaned from the newsagents for a few coppers a week via the Argosy Lending Library, and a liquid night out at the Fleece could be had for less than

A century after his visit, the town had been transformed from a quiet village to a vibrant part of the textile industry.

Cudworth was never a pit village, although it is surrounded by collieries at Monk Bretton (opened in 1870), Carlton (1879), Grimethorpe (1897), Frickley (1905) and Ferrymoor (1917).

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

Taunton is a town surrounded by water, with the Tone passing through its heart and the marshes not far away.

It is thought that the church steps were originally built in the early 14th century to enable access to the church from the old town, and at that time the steps were wooden, not stone.

As part of a commitment to education, the Wheatsheaf pub and King Edward VII School had to make way for a new College of Advanced Technology on Market Hill in 1957.

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat