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St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town. It has a fine Perpendicular-style tower with chequer-work battlements and elegant corner pinnacles.

A positive cats-cradle of wires weaves above the roadway, with telephone cables, suspended street lighting and the power cables for the silent-running electric trolley buses contesting the airspace.

Taken from Coronation Park, this view looks north, away from the town centre.

Taken from the corner of Pioneer Avenue and the Rothwell Road (A6), and looking towards the town, the photograph shows the five-storey Co-operative Wholesale Corset Factory on the left

Stoneycroft was part of the new town development, and work started in 1952.

A Victorian guidebook, published in 1895, described Morecambe thus: 'Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

Garth Dawson's Camera Cabin, located behind the clock (centre, behind the bus), has had several locations around the centre of Accrington, and is now sited round the corner on Blackburn

The Cross Keys Hotel was known as the Cross Keys and Unicorn from 1768. The present building is later; it perhaps dates from 1904, when the name was shortened.

Murkett Bros has long moved on, and the growth in traffic is exemplified by an equal increase in 'Keep Left' signs. The small market on the left is a relic of the town's original Royal Charter.

The DD registration tells us that the car chugging its way into town from the direction of Nailsworth was local, registered in Gloucestershire.

This Cotswold market town possesses one of the greatest concentrations of protected buildings in the country. Among them is the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

John Johnson's imposing Gothic clock tower, built in 1887 of white stone with sporadic red bands and gabled clock faces, was originally intended to form the centrepiece of a new building development, some

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

Although it was undoubtedly the railways that first brought heavy industry to the region (indeed, they were for a long time the major employers in the town), it was not long before other

Once Cromer and Sheringham became popular as holiday destinations, the Runtons (the villages between the towns) enjoyed the benefits of the overflowing holiday trade.

Once Cromer and Sheringham became popular as holiday destinations, the Runtons (the villages between the towns) enjoyed the benefits of the overflowing holiday trade.

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

For most people, the village of Heswall is centred on this road, the A540, linking Chester with all the towns along the western side of the Wirral.

Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town. It was opened by the Marquis of Bath on 23 July 1938.

Commercial Street was pedestrianised in 1986, but here we can see it bustling with traffic and pedestrians.