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Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth.

The Market Hall was designed to complement the adjacent Town Hall, and it is a massive structure.

Nestling in a combe between two rocky hills, the tower of the parish church of St Michael is clearly visible in this view of the town, taken from the Cobb, on which the Duke of Monmouth landed on 11

Tilgate Mansion was situated about a mile south of the town on the edge of Tilgate Forest, part of the woodlands that comprise St Leonards, Tilgate and Worth Forests; they run in a swathe from Horsham

This is a charming turn-of-the-century tableau of Salutation Square, which is the main route into the town.

Despite the fact that most of our towns and villages were founded in Saxon times, few have any reminders of their Saxonhistory left other than perhaps their names.

The fascias to Boots and beyond hide a range of early timber-framed buildings.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

South-west of the town centre, along the Ampthill Road, on a large site between it and the railway line, the County Schools were built in the 1880s on a grand plan with a massive tower and,

This view reveals Boston's elegant and urbane character.

It was the coming of the railway that made Fleet a sought-after address, and it has remained a popular country town ever since.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns.

Built in the late 14th century for the Carthusian monks of Hinton Priory, the George Inn catered for the wool merchants who came to the town's two annual fairs: it performed a useful service and was

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

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

This perfect little town, the capital of the Kentish Weald, was formerly a centre of cloth weaving.

When the town was first laid out it was to be an exclusive place, but within a few years, cheap, terraced houses had been built and Atherton's vision was in tatters.

Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

The Square is dominated by Crewe's war memorial, which is a very grand affair; so it should be – it commemorates so many people from the town.

The Lamb Hotel, in the centre of the picture, was built in 1861, and is currently being converted into flats.

The town originally grew up around the burial place of the Celtic Saint Tydfil.

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.

A year later many residents would be discussing the horrors of a whirlwind, which ripped through the town wrecking roofs and farms.