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The church stands at the entry to Bodmin and was passed by everyone travelling through the county before the town was by- passed by the A30.

Most of the region's towns have fine buildings and churches paid for by the wool trade that flourished in these parts.

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

Such a pretty name, such an ugly town. Linking Madeley and Ironbridge, this area grew rapidly in the 18th century as local industry expanded.

This view shows the rear of the Swan Hotel on the left and the remarkable turret of the Town Hall rising above it.

To the north-east is the charming market town of Martock with its triangular market place.

It is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute. The pier has changed little from how it appears in this photograph: in the holiday period it is still as busy as it was a century ago.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

This was the main route through the town until the by-pass came into being.

Twenty-four men, accompanied by a band, march round the town, their faces blackened, carrying barrels of blazing tar above their heads.

This perfect walking territory is within yards of the town.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town. The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.

The department store Shirer & Lance's was founded in the 1830s, and occupied most of the Colonnade. It ceased trading in 1979, but it is remembered by many.

The name reminds us that the Duke of Devonshire once owned the rights to the town's markets and fairs.

The large parish church is mostly 13th- century, but it was heavily restored by the great architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, a native of Buckinghamshire, between 1849 and 1869.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east. It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Just outside the town stands Bliss Tweed Mills, built by George Woodhouse in 1872, whose thriving clothing business provided 700 jobs.

When this market hall was built a number of houses, shops and even a church were demolished to make way for it.

using subscriptions from workers in all departments of the LNWR Company 'as a token of their appreciation of the generosity of their Board of Directors (who) presented the park to the town

In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the East Coast sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles, set alongside the marsh-lined River Waveney

It is accessible by foot at low tide, and many a holidaymaker has fallen foul of the tide's rapid reversal – a sobering cold night spent on the island their reward.

Modes of travel have progressed from the time when local workers walked to their workplace, and when wealthy people used horse-drawn carriages and stagecoaches for local and trunk travel.