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In the background is Barlborough's distinctively-shaped water tower, known locally as 'the Egg Cup', it has been long since demolished.

The original intention was that there should be a tower on top of the Town Hall but the local people felt it looked quite grand enough as it was and so did not bother to add it.

The 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene has a massive 16th-century tower with rounded pinnacles, which houses the peal of eight bells.The public house is appropriately named the Eight Bells.A

The five hundred-year-old parish church tower of St Paul's shows up at the top of our photograph.

The view looks north from Chamberlaine Road (foreground) up All Saints Road (left) to the tower of Wyke Regis parish church and the trees around the rectory.

The big water tower of 1882-3, soon named 'Jumbo', can be seen in the distance.

The nave and chancel date back to the 12th century; the tower is 13th century.

The tower is probably Saxon, and was added to an existing nave. The east wall has diaper patterns in stonework, which continue across the window.

A Martello tower built to keep the French at bay during the Napoleonic wars still stands here.

In the distance is the tower of Walberswick church, built in 1426.

Its tower is 158 ft high. There is now a fountain by the library entrance, and opposite there are parks. Southampton did not become a city until 1964, after a royal charter was granted.

This was completed in 1965, and has a triangular bell tower.

Sutton on Sea's parish church, St Clement's, is Lincolnshire's very own Leaning Tower of Pisa, doubtless owing to its sandy foundations having settled since it was built in 1819.

Of the medieval church, only the chancel arch survives; the tower dates from 1606, the nave from 1842 and the chancel was rebuilt in 1931.

The Victorian town hall and its dominating clock tower overlook some fine Tudor and Jacobean town houses.

The church has a 16th-century crenellated tower with gargoyles and low pinnacles, a clock and a peal of eight bells.

His helmet, now in the Tower of London, was used as a coal-scuttle before restoration.

The parish church tower stands prominently on the right, with the war memorial with its white columns in front. The present church dates from 1712.

The church lost the top of its tower in 1829, and it was not repaired until the 1960s. The area is never as car-free today.

The tower of the old Town Hall can still be seen.

The towering and somewhat two-dimensional timbered front of Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to

It was begun by William Conqueror, and it is his keep, the White Tower, that still dominates the scene.The moat was drained in 1843 and sown with grasses and shrubs.

The major difference between then and now are the then heaving commercial wharves and warehouses coming right up to the foot of the Victoria Tower: these produced interesting smells in summer, no doubt

The Round Tower of the Castle is 12th-century, although the site was selected by William the Conqueror. Most of what can be seen from the river was built during the reign of George IV (1820-1830).