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As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes. It is from here that the Sandstone Trail now begins.

Today, Looe is a fishing and tourist town. Buller's Quay in the foreground is now a car park, and the fish market is at the far end of the quay.

The Beaumond Cross at the end of Carter Gate on the southern approach to the town is thought to date from the 14th or 15th centuries, and might be a wayside praying cross.

Joining North Street with Mawney Road, Como Street had to cross the River Rom at the North Street end.

The town has an important place in industrial history, for it is the southern end of the railway line on which the first steam locomotive ran in 1804.

How fortunate that the industrial town of Middlesbrough could boast such a tranquil feature in its midst!

Its predecessor was St Edith's - a house of Ursuline Sisters at the southern end of the High Street. They celebrated Mass there from 1910 until they left the town three years later.

At the end of South Gate is the Market Place, which has on its east side one of Lincolnshire's finest churches.

These attractive timber-framed buildings are typical of the small dwellings which must have been common in the town in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's. Tile-hung walls are a feature of the town, and several examples can be seen here.

This final glimpse of old Hastings is a photograph that captures all the charms of the old town, with St Clement's Church at the end of the street.

In 1902 the architect Charles Ashbee brought 100 silversmiths, furniture makers and other craftsmen with their families from London's East End to establish the Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden.

Overspending on civic projects is not peculiar to present-day administrations, for the final bill for Rochdale's Town Hall was over 7½ times the original £20,000 estimate when it eventually opened in 1871

Redditch town centre occupies high ground near the northern end of the prehistoric Ridgeway.

Polegate, with its typical flint walls and buildings, lies just below the extreme eastern end of the South Downs.

The town owes much to the Victorian jeweller Joseph Mayer, who gave his home village a little library in Mayer Hall in 1866.

In the early 1870s, the Duke of Cleveland's estate near to the town centre was given over to development.

A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.

He still ended up with a town built solely for entertainment, and for the newly-emerging holidaymakers.

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year.

It was again completely reconstructed in 1971, when the steps and ramps were removed.

Next to it stands the newsagent's and tobacconist's shop of the Robinson family, who for two generations served the town and, indeed, had their own blend of snuff.

It is a small market town in the East Midlands of England, yet it has a university with an international reputation for excellence in sciences and sports.