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Here we see a pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town.

A good view of Gamley's toyshop, which opened in its new building in 1937: 'For the finest and largest selection of toys in the town visit our splendid show room upstairs.'

This prominent granite landmark above the town is 144ft high.

This view, looking into the High Street from the market square, is distinguished by the crocketted and slender medieval Market Cross - a reminder of Irthlingborough's 11th-century market town origins.

Tavistock is an ancient stannary town, renowned for its 10th-century Benedictine abbey.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

The monuments to the fallen seen here have been relocated elsewhere in the town.

In fact, only two buildings in this scene are still intact today; one is the church, and the other is the Palace Theatre (the light- coloured structure behind the cyclist).

The Sussex coast normally has high levels of sunshine combined with a mild and equable climate.

Sheep Street is an appropriate reminder that this town, which sits on a rounded tump 800 feet above sea level, was once a centre of the wool industry.

Amongst the facilities provided by the Cliftons was the old lifeboat house, built largely from cobbles and overlooking the promenade wall.

The market cross is an imposing structure, reflecting Ilchester's former status as the county town.

Visiting the town at the beginning of the Civil War, Charles I described the view from the castle ramparts as 'the finest in my kingdom'.

Bakewell Bridge has coped with ever-increasing traffic for six centuries, and remains one of the finest 14th-century town bridges in the country.

Near the middle of Wales, sheep are driven along a back road near the old market town.

It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

It was in another of the town's inns, The Kings Arms, that Sir Walter Scott did the preparatory work and outline for his classic novel 'Kenilworth', set during the period of the last building phase of

The High Street runs parallel to Market Place and Market Street; it is terminated to the east by Aveland House, a dignified three-storey late Georgian town house.

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

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular now with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 40 years ago.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Christopher Kempster, a master mason who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren, built it between 1678 and 1682.

The Town Cellars, with a magnificent timber roof, date from the 13th century, and were the largest of their kind in Europe when they were biult.

From 1850 it purchased land to develop substantial residences for the town's growing merchant and professional classes.