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The ornate canopy in the centre of the view is the Symons & Son building.

The Palladian-style Town Hall designed by John Carr dominates the background.

Mac Fisheries, far left, was a regular on TV ads; Marks and Spencer's, built on the City Cinema site, has been open a year, next to Woolworth's, the other High Street favourite.

Beyond it can be seen Widnes's war memorial which lists 818 men from the town who died in the First World War, the youngest a boy aged only 15.

This 7-foot-tall inscribed stone is shown here on the B3269 road - it was moved here from Castle Dore, but has since been moved nearer the town.

The Long Hoe, or Lytham Green, has been preserved over the years, and is one of the great amenities of the town.

The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood.

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

By 1818 the prison within the castle was already considered inadequate despite only having been built in 1779 and plans were drawn up for a new prison in the outer ward.

The name derives from bos, Latin for ox, and ton, Anglo-Saxon for township.

Ferrybridge is ideally placed for a major power station - coal could be delivered on the adjacent River Aire, and so from 1927 for thirty years Ferrybridge 'A' Power Station, seen here, generated

One of these very similar views shows the town on a bright summer day with the road thronged with vehicles and the pavements, benches and sea wall busy with visitors enjoying the Cheshire sunshine and

Factories were built for carding and spinning machines, and the town became a major centre for handloom weaving.

A steam launch - the 'Thistle' - is moored outside the Crown and Thistle pub's landing stage just above Abingdon town bridge.

Westborough was one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

This, the town's only open-air swimming pool, was recently demolished and replaced by the Marina and a supermarket: something of a poor exchange.

There are dates on the bressummer beam (1600), on the two small gable windows (1625), on the stork in the roundel (1871) and on the highest gable (1676), showing that work was undertaken in different centuries

South-east of the town on Watling Street, the entrance to Towcester Race Course and Conference Centre is through this fine gate screen linking two lodges.

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

In 1398, Robert III named his eldest son Duke of Rothesay, and to this day the heir to the throne retains this as one of his titles - Prince Charles is the current holder.

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

The fortified manor of the Wynn family, built at various stages from around 1490, is seen with carefully tended beds and wisteria and ivy-clad walls.

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

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!