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This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still

shopping streets were modernised, but parts survived into modern times, when older buildings are more appreciated; however, the suburbs and absorbed villages make the effort of getting into the town centre

Here the visible semi-detached houses are No 39 (right of centre) to No 45 (far right).

This view is taken from south of the Reigate Road and Brighton Road junction, with Brighton Road running uphill in the centre of the view.

The view is northwards from North Street, down to the sign of the former Lord Nelson public house (centre). The garage of Northover and Company, coach-builders, is at No.75 (left).

The lintels to the right of the picture have been shaped, with mortises beaten into the stone; the upright stone to the centre right has been vertically tapered to avoid optical distortion.

We look north-eastwards, above the gable-end of the Bay Private Hotel (centre right), to the Spittles and Black Ven. Beyond are Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill (top right).

The shops and stores on the left were demolished in the last decade to make way for the new Frenchgate shopping centre.

The tip of a spire can be seen just off centre. It belongs to St Andrew's church, which dates from 1867 and cost £5,000. St Andrews School, opened in 1866, is directly behind the Duke of York.

This view of The Parade, the centre of the new development, gives an idea of its austere late Victorian qualities, now much brightened by garish modern shopfronts.

Back in 1851 Sheffield was one of the towns at the centre of a price-cutting war between the Midland and the Great Northern railway companies for the lucrative passenger traffic associated with the

HMS 'Hercules' was a centre battery ironclad battleship. Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

From this favourite picnic spot, we can see the parish church standing proudly in the centre of the picture with the trees to its right covering the new market and car parks.

The roadside house (Newby Bridge House), the big tree and the cottages are virtually unchanged since 1940, but the motor bike and sidecar (centre) are very much of the 1930s.

The coaching trade caused Daventry to become a leading centre for the manufacture of whips.

This important monument has now been relocated close to the centre of the village.

Nearby is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh. Jack Metcalfe was born within sight of Knaresborough Castle in 1717.

The obelisk-type structure seen here in the centre of the garden pathway is in fact a multiple sundial, which in 1904 gave the time for what were then the major cities of Europe.

The least attractive part of the town centre is the forecourt to the underground station, which is also used as a bus station.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.

Although the village is a little way from the sea, the coast is home to many caravans and amusement centres.

Originally a tree lined thoroughfare, Marlowes when it was developed in the early 1950s became the main shopping centre for the new town.

The Cavendish Hotel is the taller building at the left, now dwarfed by the remarkably ill-judged grey mass of the Transport and General Workers Union Holiday and Conference Centre opened in 1976.

A precursor to the deterioration in town and village centre design is to be seen in the refenestration of the first floor to W H Smiths.