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Soaring above the buildings of the town is the spire of St Michael and All Angels' church which was designed by William White, who worked under George Gilbert Scott.

Behind it is Frost's, a tobacconist's and confectioner's, which was demolished in 1951.

In Tudor times Bewdley was a rich woollen town. Did Henry VIII walk this street?

This view of the former mining town has changed little since 1955. The Red Lion is now an estate agents, and The White Lion in the distance (left) is still there.

Navenby is a small market town with wide, airy views over the Trent valley to the west. There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

According to a bronze plaque, the fountain was given to the town in 1925 by Councillor Charles Yates, the then Chairman of the Urban District Council,.

Continuing north-east along Portsmouth Road we reach Godalming, a market town since 1300, its centre now by-passed. These timber-framed buildings are fine examples.

The competition to design a new town hall was won by J A Hansom and E Welsh; their outline plans were preferred to those submitted by leading architects such as Charles Barry and Thomas Rickman.

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.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles.

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood

One suspects that these groups of children, with one accompanying nursemaid, seated on the benches and the steps of the canopied bandstand, have been induced to pose by the photographer, to complement

Though originally a market town, Dursley has long benefited from the presence of local industries making such things as agricultural machinery, diesel engines and furniture.

Looking South This view of the Town Hall shows the main entrance at the centre.

It is showing 'Jungle Jim' starring Johnny Weissmuller, ex-Tarzan, and features the yet-to-be-famous Superman actor, George Reeves.

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood

The peak years for Barrow were the 1870s and the 1880s.

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.

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

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

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.

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

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