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On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

Its monumentalising face-lift in 1905-6 to provide municipal headquarters and premises for the town's first public library and museum courted controversy.

This is a comparatively modern scene in the High Street, showing two-way traffic and a variety of cars.

It's amazing to think that Halton is now the centre of the modern town once more; history has turned full circle.

The barracks and headquarters of the Green Howards closed in the 1920s, and the buildings were then used as an approved school.

Cleobury, pronounced Clibbery, was once a stronghold of the powerful Mortimer family; they also owned castles in, for example, Ludlow, Wigmore and Chirk.

Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's. The swinging AA sign has gone, replaced by one for the sports unit.

The Town Hall, built in 1766 by William Chambers and paid for by the Duke of Marlborough, has a prominent site overlooking the Market Place.

Bolton Road was the first paved road laid in Port Sunlight, and W H Lever named it after his home town as a reminder of his roots.

Between the wars the population of Billingham rocketed as the works was expanded for the production of methanol, chemical fertilisers, and petrochemicals.

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

This area has changed quite a lot, and has adapted to the extra traffic that has occurred during the past fifty years.

Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community. The inner rampart would have had a wooden stockade.

Talgarth is a small town a few miles south of Hay-on-Wye. Its narrow streets today are almost always congested with passing traffic.

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom was established in 1928, and has remained popular with visitors ever since.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.