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A tragedy for Chesham was the demolition in 1965 of the Market House or Town Hall in the alleged interests of those great behemoths, the motor car and lorry.

Woking should not be confused with Old Woking a mile south on the banks of the River Wey, a battered remnant of a medieval market town.

Many Pennine woollen towns had strong Liberal leanings, and prominent in this photograph of Kirkburton, near Huddersfield, is the tall four-storey building of the Liberal Club, a centre of local community

This gently curving street is to the east of the town.

A decade after the Peel Institute was completed, the adjacent Market Hall was opened as the focus of the town's trade.

Lynmouth's twin rivers run fast and furious, and no more so than in 1952, when it suffered a terrible tragedy.

On what is now Station Road, on the outskirts of the town, Marsh Hotel plied its trade in a position somewhat distant from the town.

King Alfred had a royal manor here and King John granted the town a charter for a weekly market.

Sailing ships from Bristol once plied up and down its channel and berthed at the town wharves.

The older anchorages of Sutton Harbour and Stonehouse, with the greater expanse of the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound beyond, created a perfect naval base long before the new town of Devonport was founded.

It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.

Devonport stands to the west of the city of Plymouth, and is the newest of the three towns that make up Devon's largest urban area.

Owing to an unfortunate one-way traffic system foisted on the town since this photograph was taken, Dursley's Market House and Town Hall is now isolated on a roundabout.

Packing the hillside of Happy Valley above Llandudno, holidaymakers and residents alike enjoyed the views of the activity below them beside the recently constructed Victoria Pier.

Potton's market existed at the beginning of the 13th century, and the town owes much of its present layout to that period.

A Midland Red bus makes its way through the town.

To the right, Winchester Road rises to leave town; to the left it enters town.

West Street 1930 This town was a considerable port in the middle ages, but the silting up of its ancient harbour led to a decline in trade.

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech.

They founded their town of Corinium by the River Churn, in an area occupied by a native tribe called Dobunni.

The photographer was positioned on Moor Street looking down towards the Town Gate.

Standing at the cross-roads in the centre of the town is the clock tower, which was erected by public subscription in 1876.

This Cotswold town has much in common with other old wool towns to the north and south of it, such as Chipping Campden and Cirencester.

Like many of the town's churches, it is built from salvage from the Roman town: bricks for arches, quoins and bands, and rubble and septaria (inferior stone nodules) for the rest.