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This tower is on the north-east corner of the fortress's inner wall. The D-shaped tower was much rebuilt in Charles II's reign, when it was made the Jewel Tower.

An Eiffel Tower at New Brighton was part of the original dream of James Atherton as he planned his new holiday resort. It was started in 1896 and opened in 1898.

In this picture we see most of Conwy's drum-towers, each of which is almost identical in size and plan.

The small parking strip adjoining the Clock Tower contains two motor taxis, a pony trap, a landau and an open omnibus drawn by two horses happily munching away in their nosebags.

The New Brighton Tower was completed in 1898, about eight years after the Blackpool Tower.

Marten's Tower and its flanking turrets was erected between 1285 and 1293 by Roger Bigod III.

The great gatehouse sits astride the curtain wall between Caesar's Tower and Guy's Tower.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machiolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

A pre-Tower picture. Featured here are Dr W H Cocker's aquarium, menagerie and aviary, which occupied the site where the Tower now stands.

This tower was built in 1322 as an outwork to the tower on the north-west corner of the wall.

In shape it would form an irregular hexagon, with a tower at each of the angles.

The tower was capped by a timber spire until 1802, when it was removed at the behest of Lady Kensington who feared that it would fall on her nearby house.

The present tower, built in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, stands on the site of the covered market, which also had a clock tower.

Just south of Chipping Norton is the handsome church tower of the appropriately-named village of Churchill; the tower is a copy of the tower at Magdalen College, Oxford.

We meet Bazalgette later at the Embankment in central London; seen here from the Barnes bank towpath, his suspension bridge has a 420-foot main span, and the towers are finished with French-style pavilion

Known as 'The Sisters', the towers are all that remain of St Mary's Church - it was blown up in 1809 to stop it falling into the sea.

Above are the grand 14th-century west towers, and beyond soars the great central tower, 'outstanding even in Somerset, a county famed for the splendour of its church towers' (Alec Clifton-Taylor).

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

The commanding view of the town led to number of schemes to erect a monument: the first was to have been the Victoria Prospect Tower in 1849.

There are not many churches dedicated to this saint, and this church is also unique because of its two towers. There has been a church on this site for over a thousand years.

Local legend says that the only survivor of the massacre hid in the tower of the parish church of Holy Trinity.

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

Next to the Arlington Hotel is the Methodist chapel, with the tower of the Catholic church beyond.