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The monumental scale of the town hall is contin- ued inside the Moot Hall, a linguistic link to Anglo- Saxon Colchester.

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

Today, nearly a century later, the view is instantly recognisable, with the lofty tower of St Mary the Virgin's church in the centre and the Town Hall a little to the left.

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the Bourne Stream.

This woodland on the Llangollen canal just outside the town exists today, and the canal's channel has been extensively improved.

This is one of the major shopping streets of the county town, with the entrance to Pratt's fancy goods store draped with a variety of baskets and bags.

The Wesleyan church on the right dates from 1844, and is typical of the big town chapels at that time.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.

Most were rebuilt or covered over and replaced by the modern heated indoor pool.

Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.

This 150ft high, 47-bell brick carillon was designed by Sir Walter Tapper, and erected in 1923 as the town's tribute to the fallen of the First World War.

To this day, it is a candy floss and funny hats sort of place: cheap and cheerful, very cheerful. Small changing tents were a feature of English seaside holiday towns until well after the last war.

Note the change of illumination outside the Town Hall. On the right is the Exchange Building in its incarnation as the Majestic Cinema.

Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth.

Some people are fortunate enough to live away from the towns and in the heart of the New Forest, their old cottages looking as much a part of nature as the trees and furze.

The painter J M Whistler visited the fashionable seaside town of Lyme Regis in 1895.

Middleham was the former capital of Wensleydale and a market town. As well as the weekly market there were annual fairs, and the close proximity of two abbeys must also have stimulated trade.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

With their grimy jackets and trousers, they give every impression of having endured an uncomfortable passage.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

Like the town hall tower, it dominates for miles around, and is also in a monumental Baroque style. The pond is now replaced be the uncompromisingly modern Mercury Theatre, built in 1972.

The Town Hall on the left has a meat market on the ground floor, and butchers have come out to pose for the photograph.

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

Helmsley is considered to be one of the area's more attractive market towns. This is the Market Square, with All Saints' Church and the monument to Lord Feversham.