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The canal in 1773 and the railway from 1847 brought huge trade and confidence -and pollution - to the small town of Bingley.

On Friday, 18 October 1644, the Cavaliers of Prince Maurice's Regiment spotted the Roundheads watching them and chased them to town in the 'Battle of Andover'.

This pleasant stone-built market town, on the western side of the lovely vale of Clwyd, climbs the hillside crowned by its ruinous castle.

Lincoln's celebrated Stone Bow is the later 15th-century medieval gate into the walled town, above which is the basically Tudor city Guildhall.

Whereas Marton and South Fylde worshippers had to bring their dead to St Chad's, the parish church of Poulton, people from the new town of Fleetwood had to come to Meadows Avenue, which used to be called

It is hard to believe looking at this unremarkable village centre that just round the corner lie the remains of an important Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum.

This busy scene looking along the river terrace steps on Victoria Embankment shows the1860s Town Arms pub by the bridge, the gabled building with bay windows and white stucco dressings.

Castle Gardens were laid out in 1905 on part of the old town.

The surrounding gardens contained tennis and croquet facilities, together with delightful wooded walks.

In the distance and slightly to the left of the clock tower is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell, who built the first steam-powered vessel to sail on the Clyde.

There was no bus station in the town, so buses parked in designated ranks painted on the road surface.

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.