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THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No 28 High Street of 1897, and many houses

So, it is a village that presents a rather reserved face to the world, and the heavy traffic quartering the village makes it difficult to pinpoint a centre.

Boots the Chemists were still next door to the hotel, but not for long: they were soon to move further along the High Street as Grantham's shopping centre gravitated towards St Peter's Hill, following

All this, together with Charles Wren's new fish shop in 1905, helped give the town centre a fresher and more modern face.

In June 1928 it was disclosed that the house and 235 acres had been purchased for the Conservative Party as an educational and political training centre, ensuring the preservation of the mansion

With good coaching links to London and other towns, Petersfield was a centre of road communications.

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

Notice the extensive use of sun awnings in the photographs of the town centre. In Victorian times these were supported by poles held in sockets at the edge of the pavements.

However, the most dramatic changes in the town centre were in Queen Victoria Road and Crendon Street.

Today, despite the presence of the two major ports of Harwich and Felixstowe only ten miles away at the mouth of the Orwell, Ipswich remains an important industrial and commercial centre.

Howard's Dairies grew over 60 years into a prosperous business with eight distribution centres, 30 shops and 1,000 employees.

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

David Lewis built Boys' Clubs and Community Centres all over the north-west.

The pilot service was organised in 1774 and, in 1776, an Act of Parliament set up a body of men as 'Lighting and Watching Commissioners' (Neil Wright) The tall building in the centre is 10 London

The Corporation had just gained some experience in supplying electricity for light in the city centre from a station in Chapel Lane.

Wisely, those who planned the growth of suburban Littleham built its modest shopping centre away from the heart of the old village.

The revised fair was centred upon Victoria Park. Any livestock connection was purely coincidental, as the procession of floats gathered (or should that be 'mustered'?)

It has been shifted to other parts of the Castlegate and it has been ignored as the centre of commercial activity moved westward to the new streets.

The centre for this was a site of many acres behind the houses on Marine Terrace facing the golden sands. In 150 years it has just had two names, the Hall by the Sea and Dreamland.

A new barrage will be constructed downstream, expelling the tide, and boats will be able to moor at Packhouse Quay, Doughty Quay, and other places along the Haven through the centre of Boston

So, Wilmslow became a thriv- ing mixed community and the shopping centre for the whole area; more of a town than a village.

Its social centres were the old Bull public house, situated on Bull Road (now Clay Hill Road), Holy Cross Church, and Fairview Hall in Timberlog Lane.