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The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

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

The building on the far side of the square is the Widnes & Runcorn Co-operative Society offices and shops.

This is the site of Bury Fair, the great social and trading focus of Bury in the late 17th to early 19th centuries.

The clock was a bequest to the town by William Thomas Sim, a retired local grocer, civic leader and philanthropist, who died in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine.

The Midland Bank is prominent on the left, facing the National Westminster and Barclays, which was a few steps from Lloyds' palatial building opposite the Royal Hotel.

These opposing views of the town centre illustrate the character and quality of life in Aspley Guise.

Newark grew up where the Roman road from Axminster to Lincoln met the medieval Great North Road's predecessor and crossed the River Trent.

The Town Hall tower (centre right), designed by T M Lockwood and E A Landsdowne, was opened in 1885. It has since been demolished to make way for the British Home Stores.

Truly one of the finest small museums in Hertfordshire, Ashwell Village Museum was founded in November 1930 and is based on the collection of Albert Sheldrick and John Bray, made when they were schoolboys

Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

In 1898 the school buildings were still crisp and new; they show well the Gothic Revival style chosen by Robins - this style was favoured by schools in Victorian times.

Because Egremont was a newly-laid-out town, the streets were mostly straight and wide. King Street ran parallel to the Promenade, and was a very busy thoroughfare.

The following year, Hertford was back in Scotland, burning five market towns, sacking 243 villages, and laying waste to crops. Edward VI of England was destined not marry the Queen of Scots.

Though only a couple of miles to the north of Newcastle, Gosforth had a character and identity of its own.

In 1893 Penrith Castle was owned by the London and North Western Railway Company which had stables for their horses inside the ruins.

Fordingbridge is now a busy market town, though in former days it was an important industrial centre, renowned for the manufacture of sailcloth and canvas.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury began its existence during the Iron Age, but it became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here and installed his daughter as abbess.

Michael Palladino used to go round the town with his ice-cream barrow and charged a penny for a wafer and just a halfpenny for a cup.

Exploring the dramatic coastline, pasto- ral countryside and delightful towns and villages never fails to make for a memo- rable holiday.

The three-storey black and white building on the left of the picture is The Wilbraham Arms, named for an important local family who lived in nearby Dorfold Hall; the Wilbrahams were

The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal resulted in access to Runcorn Docks having to be made by way of locks opposite the town's waterfront, or through the Eastham Locks.

King John granted markets here, and they have continued ever since. They take place around the Palladian-style market cross which is in the centre of five main roads.

Cheltenham absorbed the industries of the last century quite well; most of the factories were sited on the outskirts of the town.