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Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

The large west tower was built in the late 15th century.

This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.

In 1965 all the cranes were dipped in salute when the body of Sir Winston Churchill came upstream from Tower Pier to Waterloo after his state funerall.

The abbey was embellished by its lofty twin towers in the early 1700s.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The tower contains a peal of ten bells and a clock, and is surmounted by four open stone lanterns richly ornamented with pinnacles and vanes.

Originally early Norman, it was altered and enlarged in 1330, and a perpendicular tower was added in the 15th century.

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

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

Newark, which towers over the River Trent, became one of the finest castles in 12th-century England when the Bishop of Lincoln rebuilt the original timber fortress with one of stone.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

All Saints' Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches that has Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the tower.

Even with its spikey pinnacles, the tower is unremarkable. The east end has been worked over more than once, firstly rebuilt in 1778, and then again in 1895.

This fine clock tower was built to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

The original church was left in ruins after the Civil War, and the smaller replacement was built within the ruins, its tower a useful navigational aid for mariners offshore.

Dublin Castle remained the centre of British power in Ireland from King John's time onwards. The Norman castle burnt down in 1684 and little survives.

The Norman nave survives, but the chancel and tower were added in the 13th century.

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

The view across the village from the tower of the parish church of St Nicholas.

Its tower houses an impressive peal of 12 bells, and in the nave are an ornamented Tudor tomb and a 17th-century font.

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