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This road was cut in half when a new by-pass was built round the town. This, the lower half, has changed somewhat, but mainly only in detail.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

Stamford, one of England's most attractive and historic towns, is only just in Lincolnshire. The River Welland is the boundary between it and Northamptonshire.

In 1586 Camden said that Weobley had 'more fair cellars than most market towns of its bigness in England'.

Gravesend is a busy industrial town on the river Thames; here the river narrows to become a London river, and coastal pilots hand over to the river men.

This old inn has been serving clients since 1673, and was once an important coaching stop. In the 1860s, after the demise of the stages, many of its rooms were let out to lodgers.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

Having held the manor since 1606, the Cliftons were instrumental in its development as a select residential and resort town during the 19th century.

The Town Hall is in the middle of the ancient market place.

Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community

Barrow has an excellent public library, and the building has the same appearance today. It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

The industrialisation of the Don Valley begins here at Stocksbridge, a town dominated by steel, chemicals and former coal and clay workings.

In 1586 Camden said that Weobley had 'more fair cellars than most market towns of its bigness in England'.

Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).

On the upper reaches of the Wear and once a part of County Durham, Washington was where William Doxford built his first ships before moving to Pallion in the 1870s.

There were around 160 shops in the town centre by this time, and the Development Corporation had turned their attention to providing Basildon with a health centre, and also police, fire and ambulance stations

This small market town on the banks of the Sow was entitled to hold four annual fairs, mainly for the buying and selling of horses and cattle.

H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling spent their formative years locally, and Arthur Conan Doyle established a medical practice in the town in 1882.

This impressive castle, again ordered by Edward I, was begun in 1283 and constructed on the site of the former Welsh stronghold of Dafydd ap Gryffudd.

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive workshops

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

Outside is the Town Beam, which was used for weighing. HM Customs has now relinquished the building, and it has become a wine bar and restaurant.