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By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

This view is north-eastwards to Black Ven (top left), Charmouth and Cain's Folly (centre right).

The oldest existing school buildings are School House (centre right) and the Headmaster's House (far right), built in 1815 in Elizabethan style as a tribute to Lawrence Sheriff.

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

As the centre of both industry and population moved to Barrow-in-Furness, it was decided to built a Catholic church there.

The Army Base Repair Organisation and Warminster Training Centre are based here.

Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside.

A considerable amount of development took place in Portsmouth in the 17th and 18th centuries, including the building of naval establishments and factories, and the city became a major centre

The inn enhances one of the most pleasant-looking town centres in the area.

By the 1950s, thoughts were turning toward redeveloping the town centre.

Later in the century the Church Times left its distinctive building and the W H Smith distribution centre became the London School of Economics Library.

In the centre of the view, the spire of the Congregational church stands out proudly.

Manor Street was developed from 1847 to provide a link road from the centre of town to the new railway station, which was situated on a new road - Railway Street; the railway line to Witham opened in

Little Terrace (centre on above photograph) was built as a terrace of fashionable lodging houses by a Brighton bricklayer named William Hall circa 1794.

Parts of the Zeppelin can be seen in Potters Bar's fine museum at the Wyllyotts Centre.

The market was held in the centre of the road, with cars passing on either side - a dangerous arrangement brought to an end in 1991 when both streams of traffic were moved to the north side.

Cricket is not the only activity at the recreation ground today, as the nearby outdoor play area for children and the arts centre Clair Hall testify.

The well-laid-out Hamilton Square in the centre of Birkenhead is named after the town's founder, John Laird, in honour of his Scottish mother.

buildings on the right were put up around 1835; the one with rounded window arches was for a long time the booksellers Sherratt & Hughes, and later Waterstone's - it then became WH Smiths while the Arndale Centre

Here we see the diamond in the crown that is the centre of Preston.

Wycombe also became an important aircraft parts manufacturing centre, notably for the De Havilland Mosquito and the Wellington bomber.

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting.

Geoff Cox observed: 'The rush hour is an absolute (Robert Cook) Looking across at Chapel Street today, from under the canopy of the large shopping centre.

As part of providing civic local facilities, the council erected a large open- air swimming pool in the town centre in the 1930s on the site of Richmond House, between King Street and the river