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The Wesleyan church on the right dates from 1844, and is typical of the big town chapels at that time.

No riverside town would be complete without a rowing club, and Twickenham Rowing Club was founded in 1860.

One reason for Bournemouth’s success as a holiday resort has been that the shops are available if the weather is too wet and windy for the beach.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

The river at this point is wide and tidal. The busy industrial town can be seen on the opposite bank.

Today the great conurbation that is Bournemouth has absorbed older settlements nearby and has linked up with the ancient towns of Christchurch and Poole.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

Taunton is a town surrounded by water, with the Tone passing through its heart and the marshes not far away.

Still alone and flanked by old trees from the carriage drive to Wycombe Abbey, the Town Hall is two years old in this view, a fine building in Queen Anne style.

This aerial shot shows the whole of the northern part of the town. In the distance is Birnbeck Pier with the steamer jetty to the north, and the lifeboat slipway on the south.

By the close of the century, the town had attracted many of the wealthiest industrialists and shipping magnates intent on escaping an overcrowded Cardiff.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

The Town House extends from there to the taller tower, built about 1870. The statue is of George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, as the inscription on the plinth poignantly explains.

As befitted a growing Victorian town, the spiritual needs of the new citizens were vigorously addressed.

The characteristics of a real country market town were being established. A handsome stone church was built, originally dedicated to St Peter and St Paul but later to All Saints.

The splendid Norman tower of the Cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city’s skyline.

The fight to save the docks was a long and bitter battle. The council had been losing money for year on year, and felt that the drain on council rates was not good for the town.

The Town Hall, on the west side of St Paul's Square, started life as a school, a school originally founded by Sir William Harpur (a key name in Bedford's history) in 1566.

Here we see the Square outside the old town hall and part of Market Street. We can see the bus shelters on the left.

The landing stage has been in use for over a hundred years and, together with the cafe and children's amusements, draws visitors year after year to this pastoral part of town.

The most scenic approach to the town is from the north.