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Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.

Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a frequent visitor to Bridge of Allan when the town was a popular Victorian spa complete with pump room and baths.

Returning to the west end of the bridge, a most dramatic view of Andover was to be seen over Micheldever Road in 1908.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.

This ancient fishing town is divided in two by the Looe estuary.

The town's Parks and Gardens department is justifiably proud of its long record of good husbandry in the Embankment Gardens.

The Molesworth Arms Hotel, well placed on the principal street climbing through the town from the bridge, was said to be 'conveniently arranged and well conducted', and offered an 'omnibus to meet all

For centuries, the repair of bridges and maintenance of roads was the responsibility of the parishes in which they were situated, though important crossing points were often maintained through a levy raised

This view of the Kennet and Avon Canal, taken from the Town Bridge, shows the site of Hungerford Wharf.

This finely proportioned bridge was constructed in 1779 and widened in 1820.

Pershore is an old market town of considerable charm on the right bank of the River Avon.

Wareham is seen here from South Bridge, looking westwards to the banks of the Anglo-Saxon Town Walls and Castle Close (centre right), built by Edward Seymer Clark on the footings of a Norman fortress

The River Severn is wide here on the approach to the town, so that a lengthy twin-arched bridge was needed to make the crossing.

Looking towards Bakewell bridge, the camera captures some quite magical reflections.

There are the earthworks also of the Norman castle in the north-east quarter of the town.

The present stone bridge replaced earlier ones (the first built in timber by the energetic Bishop Alexander in the 12th century); it dates from 1775, with footways and cast iron railings added in 1848

This large mill situated below the town on the river Wensum was built in 1833, and constructed of white brick and stone.

With the widening of Bridge Street from the 1880s, the old Warrington Academy was again revealed and preserved.

From Bridge Street we head north towards Victoria Square over the Chesterfield Canal, whose bridge parapets are in the foreground.

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

Seen here nearly sixty years after photograph No 41268, this close-up reveals the delicate trellis work which makes the bridge such an attractive feature of the town.

This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.