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Eventually the West Cliff Hotel appeared, and the Princess Royal Hotel (right) was built here half a century later in the 1920s.

In the 1870s a Dr Prince persuaded Lord Abergavenny, the landowner, to develop this area, bordering the Ashdown Forest and set at a healthy 800 ft above sea level, as a health resort.

Situated on the river Sence to the south of the town, the mill was first recorded around the mid 12th century, and by the early 17th century a windmill had also been built a little to its north.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

London Road, the old A1 before the town was by-passed, becomes Lombard Street before turning right into Castle Gate with its many former coaching inns; it then turns left beyond the castle

Out of view to the right and spanning the canal is the former Pickford's Depository, a warehouse built in the early 19th century in yellow brick (the rest of the town is in red brick).

Northamptonshire sandstone is subject to severe weathering, and this photograph shows that time, money and man-power were not available to keep this façade in good order.

On the extreme right is Wood Bros, wine merchants, and above the shop there were two flats, both rented at one time by BBC trainee engineers and their fami- lies.

There were already several schools in the town when the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Belfast advertised the arrival of a new academy.

This shows the town, the railway and the headland.

The Mary Pym clock sits on top of the town's conduit, which had a trough for horses and a smaller one for dogs.

The M25 is still a pipe dream in the minds of the planners, but already the town has begun to develop.

We are looking down from the keep of Clitheroe Castle to the town below.

Between the 1880s and the early 1920s, workers flocked from all over the south-west to find work in Abertillery's coal mines.

When Victoria died in 1901 the population had increased to 47,000, thanks to the urban sprawl of nearby London and the many people who chose to settle in this attractive town upwind of the metropolis

Although a seemingly idyllic view of the canal, what this picture cannot show is the stagnant state of the water, caused by silting and the rubbish thrown in by householders and businesses along the waterway

There was a joke - especially appreciated in a boot and shoe town - that one cycled to save shoe leather.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.

Tewkesbury's cross stands at the meeting point of the town's three main roads – the High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

Only the Austin 8 and the cars parked behind it suggest that the camera clicked on this scene half a century ago.

The local sandstone is not that durable, and St Stephen's has needed more than one restoration in the course of its relatively short life.

Stanwoods (centre right) is the former Chantry House of the Gurteen family, great employers and benefactors in the town.

The building on the left of our photograph was not just the Art Gallery, but also the Harris Public Library and Museum; it was opened in 1893 as a library, but was not in full use until 1896.

In 1906, Paisley was described as a 'smoke-begrimed industrial town on the Cart with 79,355 inhabitants and large thread, shawl and corn-flour factories'.