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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.

The popular walk overlooking Fowey and its harbour is reached via the Bodinnick Ferry.

Trade was brisk here, for sailors approaching from South Quay saw this hostelry before all others, and there were about 400 pubs to choose from in the town in the 19th century!

As one of four major thoroughfares leading to the Town Centre, and formerly called Tower Hill, Manchester Street's importance was typified by the presence of many privately-owned shops and businesses and

South Street, extending over the River Wey Navigation to the station, did not exist until after the arrival of the railway in the town in 1848-1849.

Soaring above the buildings of the town is the spire of St Michael and All Angels' church which was designed by William White, who worked under George Gilbert Scott.

Behind it is Frost's, a tobacconist's and confectioner's, which was demolished in 1951.

In Tudor times Bewdley was a rich woollen town. Did Henry VIII walk this street?

This view of the former mining town has changed little since 1955. The Red Lion is now an estate agents, and The White Lion in the distance (left) is still there.

Navenby is a small market town with wide, airy views over the Trent valley to the west. There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

According to a bronze plaque, the fountain was given to the town in 1925 by Councillor Charles Yates, the then Chairman of the Urban District Council,.

Continuing north-east along Portsmouth Road we reach Godalming, a market town since 1300, its centre now by-passed. These timber-framed buildings are fine examples.

The competition to design a new town hall was won by J A Hansom and E Welsh; their outline plans were preferred to those submitted by leading architects such as Charles Barry and Thomas Rickman.

By 1818 the prison within the castle was already considered inadequate despite only having been built in 1779 and plans were drawn up for a new prison in the outer ward.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles.

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood

One suspects that these groups of children, with one accompanying nursemaid, seated on the benches and the steps of the canopied bandstand, have been induced to pose by the photographer, to complement

Though originally a market town, Dursley has long benefited from the presence of local industries making such things as agricultural machinery, diesel engines and furniture.

Looking South This view of the Town Hall shows the main entrance at the centre.

It is showing 'Jungle Jim' starring Johnny Weissmuller, ex-Tarzan, and features the yet-to-be-famous Superman actor, George Reeves.

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood