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A Town Guide reported that there were many fans of bowling in the town, and that 'matches are played on the greens of the Swan Hotel and the Constitutional Club'.

In 1770 there were 5,000 people living in the town, and by 1811 there were 15,083, three times that number; by 1835 the population had doubled again.The railway to Preston opened in 1846, but the

The canal arrived here in 1797, and transformed the village into a town.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871–72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

East Grinstead, a Wealden market town founded during the early 13th-century woodland clearances, was recorded as a borough by 1235.

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

There are overgrown sandpits above the junction of Victoria Road (centre left), and Beach Road (centre) which has since been re-named Shore Road.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

Using water ballast to operate it, it still works today, making the journey between town and beach a much easier one. The pier opened in 1869, and was originally 1500ft long.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

East of the town and the Abbey, Glastonbury Tor rises abruptly to 525 feet above sea level from the 'island' above the Moors on which Glastonbury is built.

The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions. Dating from about 1400, the bridge was for years one of only a handful of crossing points over the Forth.

The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions. Dating from about 1400, the bridge was for years one of only a handful of crossing points over the Forth.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

In 1925 the Square was beginning to show the degree of traffic problems that were to blight the town in future years.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony.

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

Honiton's lace production was at its peak during and in the years after the reign of Elizabeth I. It seems to have declined after a series of devastating town fires in the 18th century.

The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.