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Beoley predates Redditch, but it remains a small village on the northern edge of the present New Town.

Its appearance was much the same in a town guide of 1961, when it was advertised as having central heating with fires in all rooms.

mentioned on a map of 1638, and currently incorporated within Dinnages garage in Sussex/ Wivelsfield Road.

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

This was the terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and had opened in October 1863.

There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.

LEADING up from the pier to the town itself a new ramp was cut in the cliff face and called Pier Gap.

With its Roman remains and castle, Colchester has much to support its claim to be Britain's oldest recorded town.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

With its bandstand and colourful carpet bedding, it soon became a popular place where Victorian workers could enjoy an hour or two off from the daily grind.

A later king, Henry VIII, dissolved the abbey, and only the Spital Gateway remains.The wool industry was delivered into the hands of merchant adventurers, who built the huge perpendicular wool church that

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

origins are unclear, but the most feasible suggestion is that it was the old market cross of Snettisham, which the le Strange family brought to Old Hunstanton when they inherited the estates, and

The Town Hall is the tall building with the clock tower in the centre of the photograph; it was built in 1864 by E W Godwin at a cost of £8,000.

With a new century and a population nearing 165,000 the town increasingly gains the trappings of modernity.

From the sands it is possible to appreciate fully the outstanding position of the houses and hotels high on the Esplanade.

Known locally as 'the church of the four ones' because it was founded in AD1111, St Mary's is the town's parish church.

In the year King Edward VII cut a ribbon to launch London's first electric trams, this small town by the sea still used horses to pull its passenger-laden vehicles.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A

A River and Rowing Museum opened in the town in 1998.

This is the A16 coming in from Stamford towards the town centre.

The gardens behind Bank House, situated in the lower High Street, were given to the town of Stroud in 1930 by Mr Ernest Winterbotham, and were intended as a quiet corner where shop workers could enjoy

This view, with something of a frontier town feel in 1890, is now the brashly cheery High Street.