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The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

Its predecessor was St Edith's - a house of Ursuline Sisters at the southern end of the High Street.

Major high street names stood beside local businesses, and at the far end was the Capitol Cinema, one of several in St Helens.

It honours Edwin Waugh, Oliver Ormerod, John Trafford Clegg and Margaret Rebecca Lahee, but Tim Bobbin is a notable omission.

MANY MORE people know the name of Loughborough than know the town itself, or even where it is.

The town has an important place in industrial history, for it is the southern end of the railway line on which the first steam locomotive ran in 1804.

How fortunate that the industrial town of Middlesbrough could boast such a tranquil feature in its midst!

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town.

He still ended up with a town built solely for entertainment, and for the newly-emerging holidaymakers.

Dominating Castle Square ('Y Maes' in Welsh) at the west end of the town, stands the great bulk of the castle.

The weir, a mile up the river from Totnes Bridge, was built in 1581 to provide water for the town mills, and marks the end of the freshwater Dart - below here the river is tidal.

At the far end is North Quay with the harbour tug company's office building.

By the end of the Great War the town had lost many of its young men—they had marched away past the Steamer Hotel along Dock Street to the railway station.

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year.

There exists at least one account that states that the plague reached Newark in the summer of 1665, said to have been brought to the town in contaminated patterns of woollen cloths delivered to a draper

The fourth tour starts in Worksop, the largest town in north Nottinghamshire, often seen as the gateway to the Dukeries.

The first pit was sunk in September 1912, and a 'New' Rossington was created for the colliers and their families.

By the end of the Victorian period the scale of amenities offered by larger boarding houses, such as the Eardley Boarding Establishment at Splash Point, often overlapped with those of newly erected

The east end of the High Street, looking east.

The contrasting styles of urban architecture seen in modern Denbigh speak of its history and its regenerative powers; here, medieval and Jacobean frontages are replaced with Georgian and Victorian modernisations

The old library was on the other side of the road and had once been the Charity School.

After a serious fire in 1975, the 18th-century building with the black cross facing us at the end of Bridge Street, formerly the Crown Inn, was demolished; this caused a major outcry.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

Castle Douglas lies close by the main road from Dumfries to Stranraer at the north end of Carlingwark Loch.