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The church has a three-gabled east end and a west tower rather reminiscent of a Devon church.

A wonderful view of the Castle, showing to advantage the main building and the Gloirette, as well as the Maiden Tower, just visible on the left hand side as the lake swings round to the Gate Tower.

On the skyline above the sluice are the tower of the Roman Catholic church, buildings along the Croft, the tower of St Gregory's Church, and the workhouse complex.

A view from Church Street showing the ornate tower, the south porch with a priest's chamber above, and the crenellated south aisle.

Here we see the tower of the church after the rebuilding works, showing the change that was made to the architectural style of the top of the tower.

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

The clock tower lies just off to the right.

Built on a motte which is about 48 feet high, the tower itself is just over 33 feet high.

The businesses shown in this photograph, Beynon Ltd, Edwards and Godding and WJ Daniel, have all closed, though the Town Hall and its famous clock tower remain.

A temporary wall separates it from the crossing tower and the dust from the building works beyond the west tower arch.

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

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.

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 15th-century tower of St Mary's church overlooks the Market Place. The roof is decorated with angels bearing the marks of shots supposedly fired at them by Puritan soldiers.

Perhaps the most famous landmark in Belfast, the Albert Memorial tower was built shortly after Albert's death and is 143 ft high. The statue of the Prince Consort gazes benevolently down High Street.

Its impressive four-square tower stands reinforced by octagonal turrets capped with 18th-century pyramids. Today the tower is not so visible, because the trees have grown larger.

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

In the distance is the Wish Tower, one of the Martello tower fortlets built during the Napoleonic Wars.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened the Dock Tower in 1855, and Albert rode by lift the 309 feet to the top. It was designed after the style of the Palazzo Publico in Sienna, Italy.

The low tower of Bentley church can just be seen against a curtain of trees in this photograph. The base of the tower is over 500 years old, while the top is more recent.

The church tower is that of St Saviour's at Larkhall, consecrated in 1832, with its tall west tower imitating medieval Somerset ones.

From the junction with Silver Street and Gold Street you can spot the distinctive tall tower of a former boys school, now an educational centre.