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In the 16th century John Leland described King's Norton as 'a pretty uplandish town in Worcs ... good plenty of wood and pasture ...'

The original George Hotel was Walsall's chief coaching inn during the era when the town was served by at least a dozen coaches daily.

This photograph shows the town clinging to the sea with some lines of very small cottages.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

Quay Station was the original town-side stop for the Ilfracombe train.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

Middleham is famous for its racehorses, and this photograph of the Low Moor shows a string of horses ridden by flat-capped jockeys walking in a wide circle with the trainer supervising in the middle.

This photograph looks down on the town from an aqueduct along the Macclesfield Canal, the last canal to be built in England, which opened in 1831.

Leading to Runcorn Hill, Highlands Road and the surrounding area is a lovely part of the town.

This popular tourist area now has shops, cafés, inns and a modern library, and is a favoured commuter town.

Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

Now a busy road through the town, in the days before mass car ownership Deardengate was almost empty except for pedestrians.

This view shows the newly built school on a vast site between Glastonbury Road and Farmstead Road.

Booming expansion led the Duke of Devonshire and the townspeople to lobby for borough status, finally granted by royal charter in June 1883.

Road access between the seashore cottages of old Saltburn and the new town required a steep incline, which has been the scene of some spectacular runaway vehicle crashes.

This is Fore Street, which was built wide to accommodate fairs and markets.

Northern Shropshire is famous for its cheeses and dairy products, hence the market (or Buttercross) in the picture, which was built in 1824.

Many towns had open-air pools, though few now survive.

Behind on the left is a house called Belle Vue, later Whitcliffe Grange, now demolished and replaced by council houses.

It pumped sea water, which was used both in local water carts for street cleaning, and for flushing out the town's sewerage system.

Harrogate had become a fashionable town noted for its fine shops and rich teas.

Much of the employment in Victorian Cheltenham had been directly related to the activities of a spa town, with a large proportion of the working population being domestic servants or employed in hotels

Mentioned in the Domesday Book and briefly a spa town in the 17th century, Wellingborough was granted market rights by King John in 1201.