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This is a view from Bidston Hill, which was declared a place to be kept free of development when Birkenhead and the surrounding towns and villages began to grow.

You would take your life in your hands if you tried to take this view looking south up the A650 Bradford-Skipton road in the centre of the Airedale town of Bingley today.

In these last years before the M1 opened, Towcester was busy with traffic heading for Birmingham and the Midlands. Frith's photographer recorded it on a quiet day.

The town of Richmond grew up round the Norman castle, which was begun around the year 1071 by Alan Rufus, a son of the Duke of Brittany, and William the Conqueror's man in these parts.

The town of Bodiam is dominated by one of the most picturesque castles in England, set within a broad moat filled with golden carp.

This had already been the capital of the Trinovantes, the tribe whose territory covered Essex and east Suffolk.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Old Aylesbury was largely confined to the hilltop area; the surrounding land was somewhat marshy (and unhealthy).

It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges. Even the flower beds are still planted and maintained.

We look eastwards from the bushes and wall of The Grove (left). This large Victorian villa was destroyed by fire in 1952, which enabled widening of the street.

The post-war environment meant that many clubs and societies flourished; the Haywards Heath Round Table was just one example. In 1956 they resuscitated the Dolphin Fair.

The waters glide under the noble railway viaduct with its lofty arches and embattled parapet.

The town-village grew up where the Roman Stane Street crossed the River Arun.

The Checker and its associated ranges probably survived because they were close to the mill stream and the industrial heart of the medieval town with its watermill, and thus they soon found alternative

A view of part of the town from the old pier, showing to advantage the turrets and crow-stepped gable of the Grand Hotel. In the mud are various beached craft.

Both the Congregational Church and the houses next to it on the left were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the town's Magistrates Court.

The pretty gardens on the 'embankment' surround the town's war memorial, and the bay window on the extreme left of the view is the window of the presbytery of the Catholic church.

This site looks almost deserted, except for a Volkswagen parked by one of the caravans and a few cows grazing in the field behind.

Parkfield House became Middleton`s second Town Hall in 1925.

In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.The house itself became a restaurant.

Stewart Park was originally the grounds of Marton Hall, the magnificent residence of Henry Bolckow which he built in the 1850s, and filled with valuable works of art.

One stop down the line from Enfield town, Bush Hill Park station was opened in 1880 to service this development by the Northern Estates Company.

Dale Street was one of the ancient streets of the city and the main road to all points south.

St Mary's is the original town church. It dates from the same era as St John's, thanks to Bishop Roger of Salisbury, who was a liberal churchman.