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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.

A quiet lane on the fringes of the town. Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

The harbour was built owing to the foresight of the Reverend Alban Gwynne following the enabling 1807 Harbour Act, and he spent his wife's inheritance building the planned Georgian town to go with it.

This was a green, and the present Green Lane that borders the area perpetuates its memory.

In front of the church is the County Museum; nearer the camera, behind the 'No Waiting' sign, is one of Aylesbury's best town houses, with arched sash windows to the ground floor.

This photograph shows looms and other equipment installed in a workshop at the technical school; it shows the importance of the cloth industry to the town.

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

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

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

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.

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 very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports.

New streets began to be laid out as the town's population increased with the influx of new workers.

Three years in the building, the Town Hall opened on 17 April 1889, and this day was proclaimed a public holiday in the town. The Italianate style reflected the prosperity of this weaving community.

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels and private boarding houses.

Only 5 years after photograph No 23331, D G Roberts have expanded: their shopfront is longer and fronted by a mini-arcade, and they now have a first-floor showroom with a plate-glass window.

This fine view shows Lancaster's new town hall, seen from Dalton Square.

This famous and picturesque town is situated on a hill above the River Blackwater.

Turning south, the tour reaches South Petherton, a small market town in the Lias limestone foothills.

The central thoroughfare of the New Town of Hemel Hempstead, in the prosperous mid-sixties when we'd reputedly 'never had it so good'.

The bell tower of St Ninian's Church is just visible in the centre, and the nun on the left could well have been from either of the two convents in the town.

The town of Strathpeffer owes its popularity to the discovery of sulphurous springs in the 18th century.

Dunster is one of the most picturesque of Somerset's small towns; its long Market Place rises from the Yarn Market, or market cross, an octagonal structure of 1589, to the castle gatehouse with the castle