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The waters glide under the noble railway viaduct with its lofty arches and embattled parapet.

The town-village grew up where the Roman Stane Street crossed the River Arun.

The Checker and its associated ranges probably survived because they were close to the mill stream and the industrial heart of the medieval town with its watermill, and thus they soon found alternative

Stewart Park was originally the grounds of Marton Hall, the magnificent residence of Henry Bolckow which he built in the 1850s, and filled with valuable works of art.

One stop down the line from Enfield town, Bush Hill Park station was opened in 1880 to service this development by the Northern Estates Company.

Dale Street was one of the ancient streets of the city and the main road to all points south.

St Mary's is the original town church. It dates from the same era as St John's, thanks to Bishop Roger of Salisbury, who was a liberal churchman.

The canal in 1773 and the railway from 1847 brought huge trade and confidence -and pollution - to the small town of Bingley.

Eventually the West Cliff Hotel appeared, and the Princess Royal Hotel (right) was built here half a century later in the 1920s.

In the 1870s a Dr Prince persuaded Lord Abergavenny, the landowner, to develop this area, bordering the Ashdown Forest and set at a healthy 800 ft above sea level, as a health resort.

The Mary Pym clock sits on top of the town's conduit, which had a trough for horses and a smaller one for dogs.

London Road, the old A1 before the town was by-passed, becomes Lombard Street before turning right into Castle Gate with its many former coaching inns; it then turns left beyond the castle

Out of view to the right and spanning the canal is the former Pickford's Depository, a warehouse built in the early 19th century in yellow brick (the rest of the town is in red brick).

Northamptonshire sandstone is subject to severe weathering, and this photograph shows that time, money and man-power were not available to keep this façade in good order.

On the extreme right is Wood Bros, wine merchants, and above the shop there were two flats, both rented at one time by BBC trainee engineers and their fami- lies.

We are looking down from the keep of Clitheroe Castle to the town below.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

Situated on the river Sence to the south of the town, the mill was first recorded around the mid 12th century, and by the early 17th century a windmill had also been built a little to its north.

The M25 is still a pipe dream in the minds of the planners, but already the town has begun to develop.

There were already several schools in the town when the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Belfast advertised the arrival of a new academy.

This shows the town, the railway and the headland. The first station had been provided only 20 years before.

On Friday, 18 October 1644, the Cavaliers of Prince Maurice's Regiment spotted the Roundheads watching them and chased them to town in the 'Battle of Andover'.

This pleasant stone-built market town, on the western side of the lovely vale of Clwyd, climbs the hillside crowned by its ruinous castle.

Lincoln's celebrated Stone Bow is the later 15th-century medieval gate into the walled town, above which is the basically Tudor city Guildhall.