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It was once a busy little port exporting salt (from which the town takes its name) and wool, but the estuary became silted up in the 15th century.

This seat of self-improvement was opened to the town's working people in 1882. It contained a reading room and a well-stocked library of over 3,000 books.

The fountain in the centre of Wigton's Square or Market Place has a pyramidal cross-topped spire, and depicted on its four sides are the four Acts of Mercy.

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

Havant is a busy little town overlooking Langstone Harbour; its church recalls the time of Roman and Norman invaders.

Just in front of the Town Hall (1856) is the war memorial remembering the ten men who died in the First World War, and the ten who perished in the Second.

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

A Kettering resident remembers the town centre in the 1920s and 1930s when policemen, with arms outstretched, directed what little traffic there was, errand-boys cycled through the streets loaded with

It is to the credit of generations of Romford councillors, developers and benefactors that the borough has so many avenues of fine mature trees.

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

In the middle distance on the left are Bagshaws, estate agents in the town since 1871.

Here we see a conversation piece in the town centre, a century and a quarter after the proprietor of the Royal Goat changed the village's name and erected Gelert's Grave nearby.

We are looking north down the High Street towards its division into East and West streets.

The painter J M Whistler visited the fashionable seaside town of Lyme Regis in 1895.

The Square is the natural focus of this former iron-mining town on the western fringe of Ennerdale and the Lake District hills.

This view down St John's Street shows the Town Hall.

This is the town's main shopping street. Lower down, a canopy over the pavement keeps the Pennine precipitation off the shoppers.

In medieval times it was a small town, having been granted a charter in 1226.

White stone from Tadcaster was used to renovate York Minster; this stone was the reason for the Roman name for this town, Calcaria - meaning 'the white town'.

The Late 19th to the Early 20th Century Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Part of Hastings' early success was due to the picturesque scenery beyond the town to the east, with rugged coastal scenery deep cut with glens, woodland walks and cliff paths.

A delightful gravestone survives in the town's churchyard commemorating Ann Cook who died in 1814: 'On a Thursday she was born, On a Thursday made a bride, On a Thursday broke her leg, And on a Thursday