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The town still retains a large number of half-timbered buildings, including several inns, such as the Bell, the Wheatsheaf, Ye Olde Berkeley Arms and the Black Bear.

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.

To the west the Melton Mowbray road reaches the town centre via Westgate, a wide street seen here looking north-east towards Market Place.

Astride the A2, the old market town of Sittingbourne was an important staging point on the medieval pilgrims' route to Canterbury and, later on, in the coaching era.

Two identical versions of the fountain still survive in a Glasgow park and Pretoria city zoo in South Africa!

The harbour pier and landing-slip could accept vessels up to 400 tons. Over 200 vessels were registered to the town in 1893.

The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.

Before efficient transport links were opened to Ilfracombe, steamers crossed the Severn estuary from South Wales, discharging hundreds of day-trippers into the town.

The centre of Bishops Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this picture shows one of its quaint, narrow streets.

Lowestoft's convalescent home was a gift to the town in 1877 from William Birbeck, who was himself ill – he died in 1897.

Even so, the population then was about 6000.The town’s development received a boost in 1945 when Rover announced their intention to abandon their Coventry plant and concentrate production at their

Large sailing ships are moored at the buoys opposite the town waiting to go up river to load china clay.

The Midland Hotel next door was demolished and replaced with an extension to the town Post Office, which still occupies the same site today. All the buildings on the right of the street have gone.

All Saints' Church now stands at the edge, soon to join the lost medieval town in a watery grave. In recent years, divers have probed the sea bed and located ruins in the murky deep.

Newlyn was the first Cornish town to attract the attention of artists.

Some of the small boats here were almost certainly built at Lidstone's, whose South Town Yard started business in 1824.

Newport began to grow as a town in the 13th century, and expanded as a port during the Industrial Revolution.

In fact, cobbles are circular and very rare, whereas there are stone sett streets in most northern towns.

In 1956 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone opened a Methodist church in Langdon Hills, and in the following year the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited Kingswood Junior School, officially opened

The town of Farnborough has grown enormously over the years, mainly because of its close proximity to Aldershot.

The Falcon was once an important coaching inn linking the town with Hereford, Leominster and Worcester.

It was regularly used, and featured particularly in the town's Millenary celebrations in 1930. In the early 1960s it was deemed unsafe and demolished.

On the top of the low cliffs are (from the right) the Marchesi Brothers' restaurant, the Albion Hotel, the Victoria Restaurant, and Blades guest house.

The long, narrow High Street, with the Rose & Crown Inn on the right, is at the foot of a steep hill overlooking the sea.