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This procession through Egham is, sadly, a funeral procession for Percy Giles, a member of the Egham Town Band.

Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw over one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.

Their more knowledgable caddies have not been so foolhardy, and are well out of range. The Grand Hotel overlooks every amenity that the town has to offer.

Pallister Road is the impressive Bank Building built in 1899 to house the London & County Bank as well as a number of shops, including the Home and Colonial Stores.

Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

This is not one of Northamptonshire's most attractive boot and shoe towns - and what old buildings remain are now isolated by new buildings, some visible in this view.

Here we see the Square outside the old town hall and part of Market Street. We can see the bus shelters on the left.

Fletchers and Woolworth's (left) have been built on the site of the Queen's Arms public house and the old Fotherley Almshouses, which had been erected in 1682 to provide for five poor widows of the town

In 1799 Edward Ind bought the Star Inn which had a reputation for brewing fine ale. He developed a prosperous brewing business and in 1845 Octavius and Edward Coope joined the firm.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port, and there was shipbuilding here between the Norman era and the 18th century.

The largest of the waterways was known as Town Ditch and was filled in 1875. At the time of this photograph, the traffic is still horse- drawn and trees still grow in the street.

Like nearby Tiverton, Crediton did well out of the cloth trade, but when that declined the town stagnated.

The town rose swiftly to the challenge of the new tourism in the Victorian era. Piers were constructed and seaside attractions of all kinds soon sprang up.

Moulton is only a stone's throw from the centre of Northampton; when the town thrived on shoe manufacture, many men and women walked from this village to work in the shoe factories.

The Old Mill C1955 The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

Brynmawr was once the largest town in the rural county of Breconshire, but in 1974 it became part of industrial Gwent. The Red and White bus is probably a Bristol make.

It retains a distinctly rural character, yet also has the attributes of a small town with shops on either sideof the road.

Storrington never appears to have been very large, and far from being a centre of wealth, was probably no more prosperous than its neighbouring downland villages.

This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times. Coal mining and quarrying also sustained the population.