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The Royal Engineers warned that dangers remained but town traders eagerly declared the town safe.

Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

The Town Hall was designed by C Cowles-Voysey, and building was completed in 1939.

These were erected in memory of the Roughton family, who served the town as doctors continuously from 1738 until 1933. The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church.

From 1833 to 1971 this old market site near the parish church served the town well with fresh produce from across Yorkshire.

The Town Gate, rebuilt many times over the life of the town, has had many uses; at one time tolls were collected here for all manner of goods and livestock.

The Old Town Hall, in the Market Square, was built as a market hall in the late 17th century. A magistrate's court was held on the first floor, and the ground floor was used as a lock-up.

The early 19th century saw Leicester in an appalling sanitary condition, until piped water came to the town in the mid 1850s, along with its first sewers.

The pediment on the left is that of the main west elevation facing the town: the graceful columned portico can be glimpsed through the trees.

Acclaim meant numbers, and somehow the town was taking in enough visitors each summer to double the winter population.

By 1940, only 6 out of the 17 maltings in the town were in operation. Barley and fuel for the furnaces were brought to Stortford by water, and latterly by rail.

Coal mining had been a major industry regionally since the 16th century; the coal had traditionally been transported by packhorse into neighbouring Cheshire and to Liverpool.

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin. It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

The word Spa was added to the town's name in 1840 when the Penny Post began.

Thanks to restoration work by the Campden Trust, this honey-hued stone town has some of the finest buildings in the county.

A new town was laid out between 1810 and 1830, with the Parade as its main street.

The bypass on the south side of town was opened in 1926; it was much needed to relieve the narrow streets of both local china clay and through traffic.

This is a splendid county town; we see awnings shooting over the shop fronts and a number of cars dotting the kerbs. Bicycles propped up against the curbs predate modern bike racks.

Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.

Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first