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An old watch tower used to stand on the site of the Clock Tower of 1854, close to a large pond, which was infilled when the tower was built.

It has a squat tower, about 40ft high, which was rebuilt at a cost of about £7,000. The ceiling of the nave was painted with a thousand stars.

As well as its more ancient parts, Chester has the distinction of being the only cathedral since the 15th century to have a detached bell tower built.

Seventy years before there was a timber quay under the walls of the Tower, with tall-masted sailing ships edging through the raised bascules of Tower Bridge.The river here was thick with islands

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

This was ruined in 1403 during Owain Glyndwr's revolt, and only the motte and a couple of towers remain.

The machicolated heights of William Herbert's gatehouse and closet towers look down on the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap Thomas.

The ornate building with the crowning clock tower is Birkenhead Town Hall, designed by C O Ellison & Son of Liverpool. Its foundation stone was laid in 1883, and the building opened in 1887.

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

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

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

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.

The world-famous Tower is nearing completion, but work still continues on the central staircase.

The front would have been twice as high with turrets on the end towers, and with a massive central tower and spire, probably three times the height of the Norman Tower.

The tower is topped off with a small spirelet, which can just be made out. In 1318 a Scots raiding party attempted to destroy the tower by setting fire to it.

The conspicuous tower of St Margaret's has long been used as a landmark by mariners negotiating Bideford Bar at the entrance to the Torridge estuary.

A little church with a large tower, it is dedicated to St Cadoc, but it is said to have been founded by St David.

In 1695 many had a narrow escape when the bell tower collapsed during an energetic ringing session serenading a visit by William III.

Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.

Magdalen College from the Bridge 1938 During the Civil War Royalist forces defended Magdalen Bridge by throwing rocks from the top of the bell tower down on the heads of Parliamentarians below

The top of the tower of this 13th-century church is five hundred feet above sea level, and was used as a lookout point in both world wars. An earlier medieval tower was destroyed in a storm in 1637.

This stunning panorama looks south-east over the battlements and roofs of London's most celebrated building and towards the river and Tower Bridge.

This tower escaped demolition during the Dissolution because it was a prominent landmark for ships entering the harbour.

The curtain of trees to the right of the church is almost as high as the tower. The church is large, and includes three Norman doorways and a sweeping horseshoe arch.