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The newly opened post office of 1956 (right) served the town until the late 1990s, when it was sub- divided into three retail units.

On the other side of Bridge Street are the Rock Point Inn (centre right), where steps and signs lead to its Town View Restaurant.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

This view looks back towards the town centre. These Georgian buildings with their refined sash windows have gone.

This thoroughfare is a continuation of Westgate and Park Lane, and at 80 ft wide is 10 ft wider than Union Street, Aberdeen.

Carnforth, six miles north of Lancaster, has a place in history as a railway town.

Between 1633 and 1860 a bell was tolled daily in the town's 15th-century Curfew Tower owing to an unusual bequest.

This view reveals Boston's elegant and urbane character. Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.

When in the 1950s Reginald Hine, the great Hitchin historian, wrote of the town, 'It is lamentable what we have lost during the last 100 years', he was complaining of the desecration of the buildings and

This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle. The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

This statue of one of Bedforshire's famous sons was made by the noted sculptor, Boehm, in 1873, and presented to the town by the then Duke of Bedford in June 1874.

This view looks south to the old Town Hall, the building in the centre in the distance. The street is thronged with farmers and their families.

In this peaceful scene, the fact that the village has a longstanding domestic industry tradition in framework knitting and basket making is not immediately apparent.

These societies sprang up in the 19th century to help poorer families to save for rainy days, and to help provide decent burials for them.

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

Standing on a limestone hill, Dudley Castle dominates the town.

In this peaceful scene, the fact that the village has a longstanding domestic industry tradition in framework knitting and basket making is not immediately apparent.

The brewery chimney came down in 1959, and the remaining building became the site of the bus station. On the outskirts of the town was the Naval Training Ship HMS 'Cabot'.

The lodge became known as County Gates because this junction on the main Bournemouth-Poole road was also the boundary between both the two towns and Hampshire and Dorset.

The 15th-century tower of St Peter and St Paul church is on the skyline. It was built by the town's rich inhabitants during a period of religious fervour.

Freed of livestock, the Saturday market became a more congenial place; it was thriving and prosperous, despite competition from a new Monday market introduced in 1883.

Godsmark's (second from left) have been in business and in the same shop for over 80 years, but most of the other businesses have changed. W M Kirk (left) is now Ambridge's Fish and Chip Restaurant.

It is supported on stone pillars with a row of wooden columns in the centre, and is surrounded by a collection of 17th- and 18th-century hotels and town houses.

This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave.