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It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

Many found it a pleasant town to live in, not too far from London.

It was the home town of General Hector MacDonald (1853-1903), who enlisted in the 92nd Highlanders at the age of 17.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

The river forms the parish boundary with Thrapston, now a small industrial town on the east bank. Islip remains a small village, with mostly stone cottages and houses.

The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are. They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

Many of the terraces would have been built by local speculators as lodgings for visitors - the mildness and salubriousness of the climate made the town popular as a winter residence.

This old tin-streaming town is perched on a windy hill a mile inland from the sea. Solidly built of heavy granite, it turns its back stolidly on the gales.

At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to

Further down are Woolworth's and Dewhurst Butchers.

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

The petrol station in the centre of the market place was the Town Hall with an open arcaded ground floor, the arches now glazed. It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate.

Home to Britain's oldest brewery, Shepherd Neame, this town sits near many fruit trees and hop fields.

It was purchased by Reuben Farley, who paid for its restoration and presented it to the town in 1898, together with four acres of land.

At first glimpse Bibury church, with its castellated roofline and square tower, looks largely 15th-century. On closer examination, however, the fabric's earlier origins become evident.

Herbert H Raphael's gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden

Before the railway came in 1838 and today's town began to grow, this was the centre of Woking. Here it appears as though it is completely deserted with not a soul to be seen.

This view shows a working community—the town still thrives today.

Station Road was probably the first view of the town for most tourists, leading as it does from the railway to the sea front.

In his 'Topographical Collections' of 1659-70, John Aubrey wrote: 'Here is a strong and handsome bridge in the middest of which is a little chapell as at Bathe, for Masse'.

Outside the 19th-century cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.