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The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

'Chipping' means 'market' in Old English, and it was as a market centre for the woollen industry that Chipping Campden rose to affluence.

In the 1980s and 1990s Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground on Weston Road, hosted several groups such as Black Sabbath and the Electric Light Orchestra.

The Institute was opened in 1855 by Colonel Charles Townley; it was a haven for apprentices taking on night-school to further their careers, and for youngsters wanting to better themselves.

The entry for Southport in one 1921 guidebook states: 'on the once lonely shore has now developed a very attrac- tive seaside-resort and residential town, whose fine streets, notably Lord Street, challenge

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing rights

Bell & Billows were a remarkable ironmongers in a handsome late Victorian building.

Fortuneswell 1894 The Isle's main town of Fortuneswell grew up, as the name implies, around a supply of fresh water, as did many of the Portland settlements.

The Island of Kerrera faces Oban, and is linked to the town by a ferry service.

The wall beyond the boating pool is part of the north defensive wall of the Roman town.

The Island of Kerrera faces Oban and is linked to the town by a ferry service.

This attracted the wealthy, and so began the town's development.

Travelling aboard the 'Mayflower', the emigrants had to put into Dartmouth and Plymouth following problems with the ship.The memorial was erected opposite the pier on Town Quay in 1913, 11

Garboldisham is steeped in ancient history: there is a defensive earth work here known as the Devil's Dyke, and a mound traditionally supposed to be the grave of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni.

The heavy broach spire of Billingshurst Church rises above the town.

Pretoria Terrace, a well-rutted mud and sand road, looks towards the town steps.

There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.

The town was a regular target for bombing raids during the Second World War because of its close proximity to the Woolwich Arsenal.

A Benedictine abbey stood just off the town square, a vast church that dated from Saxon days.

The medieval settlement of Crawley, situated half way along the London to Brighton Road, was ideally located to become an 18th-century coaching town.

Marks & Spencer's (left) has been a constant presence in Wrexham at a time when town centres generally have been under perpetual threat of change.

A virtually deserted tree-lined High Street in Longtown, a small town on the Esk a few miles short of the Scottish Border.

Development was slow and gradual as the inhabitants dragged a poor existence from the sea and the land.