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The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

Behind the disused mill was the Wharfedale Brewery, which supplied many of the town's fifteen taverns. The brewery closed during the First World War, and was then used as billets for troops.

In 1996 the two schools came together with the name of Berkhamsted Collegiate School, and Dr Priscilla Chadwick was appointed as first principal.

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

'A town built for pleasure' is possibly the best description for Southport.

Sellargarth was a small farming hamlet close to the abbey, and the population were all tenants of the abbey.

The row soon became known as 'the ham and egg parade', and very popular it was too. But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting

A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.

Also scheduled for redevelopment was the remaining old part of the town between Church Street and the river, which had suffered bomb damage in the war.

family, the Booths of Dunham Massey and the Traffords of Trafford Park.

The Moot Hall has now been renovated, and looks worthy of its status as the Town Hall. This fine Georgian town house became the Moot Hall and residence of the Town Council around 1800.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Bridgnorth is really two towns, High Town at the top of a steep hill and Low Town at the bottom.

Shopping trends have changed since the early days of the New Town.

The rebels swept on to burn more towns before their defeat, and Colchester was rebuilt and walled in stone.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

WALKING AROUND Walsall town centre today there is little to show visitors what the town looked like in its early years.

Up to 1974, Eccles was a town in its own right. It received its Charter of Incorporation in 1891, and then, of course, needed its own Town Hall.

In 1233 the town of Ludlow was given permission to build town walls. Originally there were seven town gates (four main and three postern). This is the southern gate, and the only one surviving today.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.