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Designed in the Jacobean style by the Manchester firm of Hindle & Davenport, the Town Hall was built in 1901 to replace an earlier one situated in the Market Place.

Palmer Park was laid out on land bought for the town by George Palmer in the 1880s, and his statue, formerly in the town centre, is now in the park.

Bridgnorth has always been divided in two: High Town on a defensive position on the hill, and Low Town for traders by the river.

The town was sturdily independent of Brighton, and its character was more sombre and genteel, a characteristic reflected in its old Town Hall.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

This is the main shopping area of the town; the architecture matches the period of rapid development after the railway arrived.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

The Town Hall was built in 1701 by Thomas Guy, the local MP.

The name of the Peak District town of Chapel-en-le-Frith means literally 'the chapel in the forest'.

Oak Hill Park was Accrington's second park, and the land was purchased bu the Corporation from Reginald Hargreaves for £12,000 in 1892.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

Newhaven developed as the 'new town' after the River Ouse shifted its mouth in 1579.

Rothesay is the chief town of the County of Bute, and is situated in a well-formed bay, which affords safe anchorage in high wind.

Broseley was once the only sizeable town in what is now known as the Ironbridge Gorge area.

Here we see Brynmawr, the highest town in South Wales, from the old Blaenavon Road; this is one part of Brynmawr which has not changed at all.

In the centre of the town is the 1728 brick-built Old Town Hall, with an open arcaded ground floor.

The handsome lines of the Old Town Hall dominate this view of London Street.

This view is of East Street, looking westwards to the Town Hall (left) with the prominent frontage of William Elmes, draper and outfitters, on the other side of the road (right).

Following a visit by Edward VII in 1902, the town styled itself 'Royal Ramsey', and why not?

Here we see the town's newly-built lodging houses and seaside villas, with an early motor car on the left in front of the Belgrave Hotel.

This view is of East Street, looking westwards to the Town Hall (left) with the prominent frontage of William Elmes, draper and outfitters, on the other side of the road (right).

Cross Street is the main shopping street in Castleton, where gift shops still specialise in selling jewellery and other items made from the town's unique semi-precious stone, Blue John.

Remarkably little of the medieval city survives; apart from St Mary Magdalen and a fragment of town wall, the Abbey is the main physical evidence of what was a prosperous town built on the wool trade.