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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.

Llanelli is still very much alive, and Town Hall Square is laid out in a most symmetrical and pleasing manner. It possesses a rather grand neo-Jacobean Town Hall with a highly decorative clock tower.

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.

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

KIDDERMINSTER has been fortunate in that it has always been a relatively compact town, despite its expansion during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Townley family owned the hall for over 500 years; it was given to the people of Burnley by the last occupant, Lady O'Hagan, the widow of Lord O'Hagan, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

Here we see another view of the bleak and unappealing shopping precinct, constructed when the town's population numbered less than twenty thousand people; it appears less incongruous when viewed alongside

In the 1950s Kettering was still an important boot and shoe town, specialising in heavy work boots. It also had a significant engineering and clothing industry.

A bustling and lively shopping street but not yet choked with motor traffic.

This town was almost completely formed and defined by the production of coal.

The Market House (or Town Hall) with its clock and bell turret was built in the 18th century by extended and largely reconstructed by Lord Chesham in 1856.

At the close of the 19th century, Alton bore the stamp of an old country market town, with its bustling streets and striking shop fronts. Opposite the King's Head is the town's market square.

Blackburn Road is at the very heart of the town. The first building on the right is the Market Hall, and next to that, in the centre of our photograph, is the Town Hall.

Wales's oldest university is located here; it was established in 1822, and has brought a cosmopolitan complexion to this ancient and most distant of towns.

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.

The coming of the railway made Horsham a natural target for expansion, helping to boost the town's economy.

This view shows a virtually-deserted High Street in the undistinguished former colliery town of Normanton, three miles north of Wakefield in South Yorkshire.

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

Designed by Thomas Robinson and completed in 1887, the red-brick town hall deserves a more spacious and prominent setting than Market Street.

there has been considerable investment in rejuvenating and developing the town, so much so that apparently property prices in and around the town are now rising faster here than in