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Sail boats and bathing machines dominate the beach area between the North Pier and the South Jetty. In the distance we get some idea of the development of this end of the town.

This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

The town's wealthier residents lived in sumptuous villas at this end of Newton Abbot.

The top end of the main street in Penzance is dominated by the impressive classical frontage of the Market House and Old Town Hall, erected in 1837.

A Little Chef and a more modern fuel station (the Mile End service station) has now taken the place of this homely café we see here offering teas and the delights of the ubiquitous Hovis loaf.

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.

This rare photograph shows the interior of the convalescent home at the end of Queen Victoria's reign.

The Victorian drinking fountain at the far end of the Market Place was given to Wallingford in 1885 by Alderman Hawkins, who ran a draper's shop, Field and Hawkins, in the town.

The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place. Only remnants of its medieval tower survive.

At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

Its designers considered that this new access to Torquay would popularise this hitherto quiet end of town.

This is a very popular view of the town, showing the three bays separated by rock outcrops. The pier was built on one of these outcrops in 1865, only to be damaged in a storm the following year.

Returning to the west end of the bridge, a most dramatic view of Andover was to be seen over Micheldever Road in 1908. Today, raw chalk has been conquered by soft greenery, obscuring the town.

It was in Shropshire Street that Roland Lateward lived at the end of the 1700s. He is reputed to have been the first gingerbread baker in the town. Even today, gingerbread is still produced here.

The town's wealthier residents lived in sumptuous villas at this end of Newton Abbot.

An 1821 Act of Parliament specified financial limits within which Worthing Town Commissioners could purchase land to erect a building to hold their meetings and provide and maintain a town clock.

We are in the town centre. Note the branch of Woolworth's just visible at the end of the street, and the branch of Dewhurst the butchers among the other shops on the right.

The Guinness clock at the top of Old Town Street was a popular rendezvous. It stood where the southern end of Drake's Circus shopping centre now stands.

By 1900, Paisley was a smoky industrial town with a population of 80,000.

Houses and shops were then built and in 1855 it was described as most strikingly beautiful portion of the town.

Here we look east, with the castle, now a golf hotel, out of the picture at the far end of the road.

The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place. Only remnants of its medieval tower survive.

The road curves attractively to the bowed end of the 18th-century Town Hall. The gilded swan now faces to the left.

Looking across from the war memorial in Windsor End, this view shows the range of fine historic buildings, with Georgian and early 19th- century refrontings to earlier Tudor buildings that so characterise