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The Sheffield branch of Thomas Cook & Son is dwarfed by its neighbour,Woodhouses.

To most people, it means Stonehenge and Salisbury, or somewhere that appears on a sign as travellers rush up and down the M4 motorway, heedless of what is around them.

Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I, but unlike Hawes and Askrigg, it never became industrialised.

The local textile industry blossomed, and people moved into the village from the surrounding areas to work in the new mills. Quarries sprang up, and jobs were created.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.

The tall building on the right was refronted about 1920 and Henry Chilton was replaced by the 1930s Midland Bank, stone faced and Moderne, now the HSBc bank.

Wareham St Martin's (right), standing on King Alfred's Town Walls, is Dorset's earliest complete church. Anglo-Saxon arcading was replaced by Norman arches in the 12th century.

The building on the right, now demolished, stood on the corner of what is now Vicarage Road, and was the first county library in the town.

It was at Stirling that both James II and James V were born and where Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI both lived for a number of years.

The view towards the Royal Hotel and Lloyds Bank is almost unchanged. On the right the Victorian Corn Exchange has become the Variety cinema.

The town is brimming with Georgian architecture - symmetrical red-brick buildings with large sash windows, typified by the classical facade of the Rose and Crown Hotel (the building itself is a good deal

Crowborough's rapid development from the mid Victorian era started from the arrival of the railways and the rise of the commuter.

These are the first houses we see as we enter the town from the north; they have been described as 'an outstanding group of mostly 15th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings'.

In July 1943 the town received attention from the Luftwaffe, but the only building to be destroyed in the High Street was Brooker Bros premises, still not replaced when this picture was made.

This view has the old Angel Inn on the left and the former library; beyond is the wonderful town hall.

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.

As tourism expanded, and smart visitors arrived in ever greater numbers, such unti- diness was frowned on by local businesses—the town had to smarten up its image.

The oldest holiday town in Devon, Exmouth was popular by the early 17th century; it grew enormously during when the Napoleonic wars closed the Continent to our gentry, who had to holiday somewhere.

Adjacent to Stocksbridge, this town was built on quarrying and the brickworks.

Most of the town's finest buildings are Georgian - the woollen mills and the merchants' houses. Bath stone was used for many of the buildings.

Much of this area is unchanged today: it is an attractive combination of golden stone buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Town Hall with its clock is on the left.

This is one of the most famous buildings in Essex, situated in what was, during the 14th and 15th centuries, one of its most prosperous towns.

However, the Charter of the Lord Protector Cromwell, granted 26 February 1656, was to be of importance to the development of the town.