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An interesting view of Loftus, again showing the towers of the Catholic church and the town hall.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.

The promenade provides a curious facility that seems less user-friendly than we might expect today and is more akin to a stadium.

'A township, parochial chapelry, market town, corporate and parliamentary borough', was how Clitheroe was described in 1840.

This town can be confusing for the visitor, as not only has it two rivers, but also two High Streets.

Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, bookseller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison. The lamp post on the right marks the site of the town's first post office of 1835.

Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all

As nearby Sheffield expanded, so did towns like Oughtibridge in the Don Valley. The river powered mills, but later manufacturing became the mainstay.

A quiet lane on the fringes of the town. Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages. In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.

This main road through the town used to be the Wakefield to Halifax road, originally built by the Romans. Business in the town was not only concentrated on blanket making.

Renowned as one of the finest parks in the north of England, Queens Park was given to the town by the London and North Western Railway Company to commemorate fifty years of the railway in the town.

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 school (left) was built in 1840, and provided education for the children of Barkway and Reed. This fine building is remarkably original, and stands on the site of the old Market Square.

The gateway to the Abbey and the commercial edge of the secular town face each other across Angel Hill.

The town is considered the gateway to the moors and forests of the Northumberland National Park, and the Pennine Way also passes through the town.

The industrial and commercial parts of the town co-existed in a very confined space. The mill chimneys were an ever-present reminder of the source of the family's wagepacket.

The town's Parks and Gardens department is justifiably proud of its long record of good husbandry in the Embankment Gardens.

The town, while remaining essentially small and with only a minimal growth in population, continued to spread eastwards. Shaftesbury Avenue was built up in 1904.

The entire heart of the town has been moved over the hill to a new site, so that the little that remains of the old High Street is now totally run down.

The horses and ponies which pulled the carts were stabled behind the town's many inns, where they were fed, watered and rested, ready for the journey home.

King Henry III gave exclusive rights to hold a Wednesday market, and granted a charter to the town in 1251. It was discovered in 2004 that the town had 'lost' this historic charter.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims – it still has a fine Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas à Becket.This well-maintained timbered

All the needs of a developing small town are in evidence - the Bedford lorry loaded with builders materials, Charles Love & Son's ironmongery and radio/TV engineer's (right), Lisles petrol station (near