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Its tower is a noted landmark over the city.

Behind Hutchin's pharmacy we can see the tower of Lopping Hall. A blue plaque recalls that this was built in 1883 out of compensation paid for the loss of tree-lopping rights in Epping Forest.

The 16th-century tower has a unique 300-year-old clock. A descendant of the maker wound it daily for 65 years, only retiring in 1984, since when it has been restored.

The 70ft tower of the church of St Philip and St James appears to be made of pieces from another building. Below is the Gothic-style village school, built in 1827.

The bustle of what must have been a market day is evident in the thronging crowds around the clock-tower and the busy road.

In the distance, to the right beyond the bathing machines, is the distinctive tower of what is now the Harbour View café, at the date of this photograph the lookout for the Coast Watch patrol.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the Cathedral, whose modest spire (added to the original tower in 1904) rises behind

No one now knows why it was called 'Cow Tower', for in previous days it was the water toll gate where the monks' servants collected taxes on vessels plying the river.

Panoramic views of the city can be seen from the top of this tower, which was built in the 12th century to replace a previous wooden castle.

The cows with their driver, the cottages ranged behind small gardens and picket fences, and the church tower in the background, add up to a satisfactory whole, of which William Morris would have approved

Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

The large west tower was built in the late 15th century.

This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.

In 1965 all the cranes were dipped in salute when the body of Sir Winston Churchill came upstream from Tower Pier to Waterloo after his state funerall.

The abbey was embellished by its lofty twin towers in the early 1700s.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The tower contains a peal of ten bells and a clock, and is surmounted by four open stone lanterns richly ornamented with pinnacles and vanes.

Originally early Norman, it was altered and enlarged in 1330, and a perpendicular tower was added in the 15th century.

This classic view shows to good advantage the central tower and the west window.

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

Newark, which towers over the River Trent, became one of the finest castles in 12th-century England when the Bishop of Lincoln rebuilt the original timber fortress with one of stone.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

All Saints' Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.