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One of the most memorable images in the entire Frith archive, this intimate shot of the Cobb wall was inspired by Jane Austen and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The architecture of the High Street reflects the wealth that a depressed town gained from its booming boot and shoe industry in later Victorian times.

Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over the Blackmore Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

The name 'Finkle' comes from a Viking word meaning 'angle' or 'corner', and this less than straight street has not changed its line since those times.

This town is often over-run by pilgrims and tourists, but the local inhabitants still require basic essentials, even coal (left) and petrol for their vehicles (right).

The town grew in the 18th and 19th centuries through the productin of lead, coal and iron. The Wrexham Lager advertised on the right was the first to be brewed in Britain.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The Town Hall was built in 1826 on the site of the Exchange Inn, a property belonging to the Borough.

The war memorial stands on a site formerly occupied by a stable, a coach house and two single-storey houses.

St Mary Magdalene's church runs west from the Market Place and was heavily Victorianised and extended – the new chancel's foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Portland in 1887.

The Victorian Barclay's Bank beyond has delightful carved heads over the door and windows. Beyond is No 26, now William Brown, which has the best timber framing in the town.

Here we see the interior of the castle, built by Edward I between 1277 and 1289.

The funnel effect of the town's main street in 1965 can be fully appreciated in this photograph. The Black Lion public house on the right was originally on the opposite side of the road.

Returning from India with a taste for spicy food, Robert Clive is thought to have introduced ginger-bread, a product for which the town is now famous.

Another view shows what a high quality design the subscribers got from their architects, Arthur McKewan and G H V Cole, using a sort of Baroque-cum-Wren style. It cost £6,000.

The original George Hotel was Walsall's chief coaching inn during the era when the town was served by at least a dozen coaches daily.

The development of many Victorian towns included the provision of a public baths and Lytham is no exception.

Formerly the Peel Institute, the Town Hall was built in 1858 as a tribute to Sir Robert Peel.

The shop offers an alternative to alcohol by offering teas and snacks, in a time before pub food was the norm.

The medieval borough and market town of Bala is still loved for its wide streets in this most rural part of Meirionnydd.

Barnard Castle had a fulling mill by 1316, which suggests that there was a local cloth industry, and there were three corn mills operating in the 1390s.

In 1933, 70 acres of chalk downland were acquired by Chatham and Gillingham councils to create this beautiful open countryside nature reserve between the two towns.

Just behind the road sign is an entrance to the Feathers Hotel, once an important coaching inn linking the town with Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester and on to London.