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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.

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.

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.

The saffron crocus, once very important in the dyeing industry, gave the town its name.

To the south of Easington, the new town of Peterlee was developed with the aim of attracting light industry into the area.

On this composite postcard of New Romney, we have the Dungeness lighthouse, built in 1904, and the Romney and Hythe District Light Railway, which started in 1927.

Caerphlly was primarily an industrial and market town.

The new town is gathered around an expansive green. Hunstanton grew out of the hamlet of Hunstanton St Edmund, sited low on the cliffs and owned by the Le Strange family of the Hall.

Settle lies on the road between Skipton and Ingleton. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall, built in 1832, and in the background, somewhat smothered by washing, is the Shambles.

This view shows that the houses are still few and far between, and the village, known as 'the town that never was', remains much the same now.

Notice the factory chimneys and their puff-ball smoky emissions.

Situated on a hill overlooking the town, Christ Church, or the Jesse Haworth Memorial Church, was designed by Lawrence Booth and built in the late 1880s.