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The Town Cellars, with a magnificent timber roof, date from the 13th century, and were the largest of their kind in Europe when they were biult.

The High Street runs parallel to Market Place and Market Street; it is terminated to the east by Aveland House, a dignified three-storey late Georgian town house.

The Sussex coast normally has high levels of sunshine combined with a mild and equable climate.

Sheep Street is an appropriate reminder that this town, which sits on a rounded tump 800 feet above sea level, was once a centre of the wool industry.

Amongst the facilities provided by the Cliftons was the old lifeboat house, built largely from cobbles and overlooking the promenade wall.

Bakewell Bridge has coped with ever-increasing traffic for six centuries, and remains one of the finest 14th-century town bridges in the country.

Near the middle of Wales, sheep are driven along a back road near the old market town. Llanidloes was one of the major centres for wool and flannel production from the late middle ages.

The monuments to the fallen seen here have been relocated elsewhere in the town. Oldfellows Hall is on the left.

In fact, only two buildings in this scene are still intact today; one is the church, and the other is the Palace Theatre (the light- coloured structure behind the cyclist).

It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

Christopher Kempster, a master mason who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren, built it between 1678 and 1682. Today it houses the town's museum.

It was in another of the town's inns, The Kings Arms, that Sir Walter Scott did the preparatory work and outline for his classic novel 'Kenilworth', set during the period of the last building phase of

Outside the 19th-century cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular now with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 40 years ago.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Tavistock is an ancient stannary town, renowned for its 10th-century Benedictine abbey. It was once the largest producer of tin in Europe. After this industry declined it turned to cloth.

This view, looking into the High Street from the market square, is distinguished by the crocketted and slender medieval Market Cross - a reminder of Irthlingborough's 11th-century market town origins.

A good view of Gamley's toyshop, which opened in its new building in 1937: 'For the finest and largest selection of toys in the town visit our splendid show room upstairs.'

This prominent granite landmark above the town is 144ft high.

The market cross is an imposing structure, reflecting Ilchester's former status as the county town.

Visiting the town at the beginning of the Civil War, Charles I described the view from the castle ramparts as 'the finest in my kingdom'.

In 1247 King Henry III granted Romford a charter permitting a livestock market to be held in the town every Wednesday.

From 1850 it purchased land to develop substantial residences for the town's growing merchant and professional classes.

Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge. There are boat rollers by the Isleworth bank on the right, and Richmond Lock is on the left.