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The peak years for Barrow were the 1870s and the 1880s.

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The building on the far side of the square is the Widnes & Runcorn Co-operative Society offices and shops.

The clock was a bequest to the town by William Thomas Sim, a retired local grocer, civic leader and philanthropist, who died in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine.

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

This is the site of Bury Fair, the great social and trading focus of Bury in the late 17th to early 19th centuries.

A smart two-seater convertible is parked outside the imposing Barclays Bank, which had been built in 1910 as the Boston & Spalding Bank.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

The town is named after the grange, or storage place for grain, belonging to the monks of Cartmel Priory.

Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.

Along with Mill Street and Jordangate, Chestergate was one of the first streets to be properly paved, and, more importantly, to be provided with surface drainage.

The town was a centre for brewing, malting, tanning and mining as well as staging Monday, Thursday and Saturday markets.

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus. After Wolverhampton, Walsall is the largest of the Black Country towns.

Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.

A cart horse of Dickens & Co, brewers and wine and spirits merchants, waits patiently between trips. Lighter loads were taken around town by handcart.

The finest feature is its tower with angle volutes and vases crowned by a slim spire.

It is known to Worcester folk as the Glover's Needle because of its slenderness and height, and because this part of town was the main gloving area when the trade still flourished.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

Further up into the Market Place from G66002, we see the town's library at number 14 Market Place (left) before its move to new premises behind Westgate in the early 1960s.

Mills crowd in towards the town centre, following the course of the river Roach and its tributary the Spodden. Textile mills reached their peak of prosperity at this time.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley