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The area around the shot tower on the right became the site of the Festival of Britain in 1951. The river traffic is also history.

The most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.

Overlooking the scene is the grand building and clock tower housing Barclays Bank.

The whole scene is overlooked by the tower and steeple of St Peter and St Paul's church.

The Perpendicular tower is 179 feet high, with a battlemented spire. There are four stages with the upper, bell stage, having three openings.

He became so concerned by the loss of seamen in local wrecks that he erected the Tower of Refuge in Douglas Bay.

Dobson restored the chancel and nave and added a north aisle and the west tower. A porch was added in 1844.

The church is dedicated to St Osmund and has a 15th-century tower, although most of the fabric is from about 1840.

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory

The brick tower windmill of 1770 and 1890 survives, minus its sails, and has been well-converted into a house.

The church of St Andrew, Gothic in style, was built in 1887 to replace one built in 1773; a planned tower never materialised.

The small louvered bell tower overlooks a playground still in use. New substantial dwellings for the town's burgeoning middle class rise up towards Beacon Hill.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

A principal feature of the new buildings were the four Italianate towers constructed of Ruabon red brick.

The 85-foot high functional-looking white tower of the North Foreland Lighthouse was built in the late 17th century.The light, 188 feet above high water, is visible for 19 miles.There is said to

The main buildings are 1868-dated Symondsbury School (centre) and St John the Baptist Parish Church, with a clock and six bells to its embattled tower.

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

The west tower was originally built as a two-storey porch in c1030, and the aisles were added around the year 1200.

The parish church of St Mary is built of local cobbles, with a fine tower that was rebuilt in 1688 using 13th-century materials.

The corner tower houses the Black Staircase, which when completed in 1662 was free-standing, even though it rises through four floors.

The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church. Its grandeur recalls the pre-boot and shoe era of the sheep trade, from which the town gained its earlier wealth.

The church was built in Norman times, and the squat tower was given its belfry and battlements in the 15th century.

The tower of St Mary's Church rises over the rooftops to the left of the picture. The portico of the Lion Hotel is seen on the right.

The great gatehouse and mural towers of the outer ward were probably built during the reign of Henry III.