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This classic view shows to good advantage the central tower and the west window.

William Herbert's tower-keep is seen here on the right of the picture.

Here, the abbey is almost complete save for the tower.

The 12th century Church of St Helen and St Giles looks down on the Clock Tower, erected in 1921 as a memorial to Rainham men who fell during the First World War.

Overlooking the pond is King Edward Hall, opened in 1911 and designed by Walter Tower. The scene has hardly changed today.

The clock tower of the Brine Baths stands toward the end of the street, where the road is congested with buses and lorries.

The building with the tower is known as Low Lighthouse, although it has now been converted into the Maritime Museum. Built in 1818, it replaced an earlier wooden structure.

A Norman building stood until 1724, a second was completed in 1824 (its tower still stands at the corner of its successor) and the third was consecrated in 1886.

The tower in the background is part of Bloxham School.

When the tower was found to be unstable, it was strengthened and the spire raised to 182 feet. The roofs of four maltings mark the towpath of the River Stort.

This is one of modern Maidstone's many tower blocks.

The tower is 110 feet high and, because of its prominent position, it was bombed in the Second World War. It was repaired in 1956-8.

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

This view of the towers is taken from inside the ruins.The castle stands on high ground with excellent views over the widening river.

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers. Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

Our view takes in Werwick's Revolving Tower and shows what working-class people did for their week's holiday: they sat and relaxed and took in the sea air.

Panoramic views of the city can be seen from the top of this tower, which was built in the 12th century to replace a previous wooden castle.

The tower and spire, which reaches a height of 124 feet, were added later in 1891, as a memorial to Freda, daughter of the Reverend Middleton, vicar at the church for 27 years.

The pinnacle to the right of the Victoria Tower has now been restored.

The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap. It had five patent shuttered sails, as is indicated by the five-way cross on the front of the windshaft, and a fantail.

Note the unbuttressed west tower and the roof of the south aisle in poor condition, just three years before restoration.

Entered through Edgar Tower (just visible here above the rooftops), or through the Watergate, College Green is a delightful quadrangle of mostly 17th- and 18th-century houses, forming part of King's School