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Flookburgh is a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands. It was renowned for its cockle gatherers and fishing for flukes, or flat fish, in the estuary.

Ships from South Wales carrying lime and coal were once regu- lar visitors to the town.

The ornate building with the crowning clock tower is Birkenhead Town Hall, designed by C O Ellison & Son of Liverpool. Its foundation stone was laid in 1883, and the building opened in 1887.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to

This admirable market town, with its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, was once hailed as 'the Montpellier of England'. Five roads meet at the market square.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

The most famous Shambles is in York but many towns had their shambles or meat market at one time.

Everyone is posing for the camera right through the town centre, and in the road too. Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

This is an altogether more busy scene ), and newly emancipated women boldly walk in all directions. The elegant Swan Hotel dominated the square, then and now in fact.

As Reading expanded south, St Giles', decaying and small, proved unable to cope, and Christchurch was built in 1861-2.

By the 18th century, Ormskirk was already an important agricultural and market town, but with the arrival of the railway in 1849 it rapidly developed as an attractive residential area for Liverpool's prosperous

When Brunel built his Great Western Railway in the 1840s, Didcot became a major junction for the lines to Bristol and Oxford.

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

This was a rural tree-lined road where children could feel at ease and little danger threatened to befall the solitary cyclist.

Settle lies on the road between Skipton and Ingleton. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall, built in 1832. In the background, somewhat smothered by washing, is the Shambles.

The Village C1955 The centre of Bishop's Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this photograph shows some of the country town's striking Georgian build- ings.

Solid, if plain, buildings on both sides of Fore Street give this district of Hayle the look of a mining town. The name comes from the copper works, which closed in the early 19th century.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift. The building then marked the edge of the town.

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.

The ladies of the town used to meet in Main Street at the Loft Café.

The town sits beside a Roman road across which is the hill of Caer Caradoc.