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The developers seem to have got the balance right at the Ashley Centre, built in 1984.

A motor car rattles along Ashley Road.

Prussian-born George Muller arrived in Bristol in 1833 and three years later started building five orphanages on this site at Ashley Down.

Ten years later, the designer Laura Ashley opened a mill in the village to mark the start of what has become a fashion empire still in business throughout Britain today.

The soldier is in his best uniform and is probably on his way to the drill hall in Ashley Road, depot for A and B companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.

Ashley no longer lets 'Boats by the Week, Month or Season', nor are they 'Housed and Varnished'.

the High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, the Spread Eagle, prominent on the corner of Ashley

When Lord Ashley married Harriet Chichester, the only surviving child and heiress of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, his father may have made it plain that if he was to become an Irish landlord he would

The red brick Ashley House, with the large white gable (centre), was built for Joseph Simpson in 1875; due to its cost, it was known as Simpson's Folly.

The business must have recently changed hands, because in the 1906 directory it was the premises of Charles Riley, and Kennerley's shop was at 112 and 114 Ashley Road.

The best part of Thames Ditton architecturally is north and west of this viewpoint, which shows the post office at the High Street's junction with Ashley Road.

It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home.

On the left all the buildings are timber-framed, although several have later brick frontages: for example the grocer's shop, now Gavin Ashley's, is dated 1835.

at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The Spread Eagle, prominent on the corner of Ashley

Rifleman in East Street, a Canadian soldier was arrested and taken to the police station in Ashley Road, despite the complaints of his friends.

A private committee was hastily formed and at last, in 1922, the memorial was built fronting Ashley Road at the corner of the cemetery.

This was requisitioned for the Ashley Centre - the building is now part of W H Smith Ltd - and Bredero, the developers, undertook to provide new premises.

Lester Bowden died in 1980, leaving his sons Richard and Warwick in charge of the rebuilding programme occasioned by the Ashley Centre.

Built to an original design by Sir Christopher Wren, it is believed that Aspley House's chequered history includes a spell as an outpost of the work of the Special Operations Executive during World War

The octagonal Jacobean font is decorated with the arms of Scotland, Ireland, Maidstone and the Astley family, who were granted the former Archbishop's Palace in Elizabethan times.

These buildings are in complete contrast to the home of Lord Hasting; the Hall has been a seat of the Astleys for centuries.

This Italianate mansion was built c1860 for Mr Eley, the cartridge manufacturer, and was known locally as 'Eley Cathedral'.

These opposing views of the town centre illustrate the character and quality of life in Aspley Guise.

The Bailiwick tactfully elected Sir Astley Paston Cooper as the first Mayor of the newly formed Borough, and a great civic celebration was planned with Sir Astley opening Gadebridge Park to the