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In the centre of Kingsbury is the drinking fountain installed in 1914; it was removed in 1929 when a bus station was erected in the Square, and later re-erected in the Vale Park (see Chapter 2)

The square tower, centre, is St Mary's Church, built in 1908.

The white gable (centre right) is the former Swan, closed in the 1930s.

The Post Office and Stores (centre) run by C J Brook closed in 2002.

office has moved across the road into Read the tobacconist's next to the Gedling Wine Stores on the corner of Waverley Avenue – this shop is now Barber's Queue, a hairdresser's and sun bed tanning centre

This view looks towards the 1871 cast iron Trent Bridge from the Victoria Embankment, a view much changed today, with the awful West Bridgford Hotel of 1962 (now Rushcliffe Civic Centre) replacing

The Marquis of Granby was another one of the many pubs and alehouses in the town centre that no longer exist.

This photograph was taken about five years after R353020 (pages 62-63) and further down the hill towards the centre of Rockingham.

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

The parish church is just south of the High Street - we can see its tower (centre left).

Nag's Head Island is in the centre with its hotel fronting the bridge, and Stevens's Boatyard are the white buildings to the left.

The jettied, gabled building (centre right) was renovated in the early 1950s and is home to the Riverside Fish and Chip Shop.

He had the swimming pool cut into the rocks (lower centre left) so that his boys could still have their daily dip - stripped naked - when conditions were too rough for jumping into the sea.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

The postman (centre) has probably purchased some parts from Fisher's, who sell all the top brands of bicycles - not that the GPO buy top-of-the-range transport for their rural postmen!

Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop(centre).

The large many-chimneyed neo-Georgian buildings on the right, Chiltern Parade, were built in 1936 by Sainsbury's who occupied the centre shop.

The old centre of Chalfont St Peter has suffered greatly, by-passed too closely and swamped by housing estates, the houses steadily increasing in size before merging with the affluent 'Metroland

From market place to bus terminus, centre for further education and declining shopping area; by 1955 Park Square was ripe for the redevelopment that did not actually happen for another 25 years.

This is the centre of Milford, with the road to Keyhaven and the coast on the right by the Midland Bank.

Despite the Cold War, it was later used as a distribution centre for Russian Lada cars.

Built around the massive Sprotborough Hall, village life centred on the landowners, the Copley family.

They have a charming differentiation – 'High Street Superior' and 'High Street Inferior' - but they are the same street, with the name change at the town centre crossroads.

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and