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The gardens are laid out on a site that slopes gently down towards Rope Walk and The Brook, offering a pleasant place in the centre of town in which to stroll or sit, and perhaps recover

Note the awnings over the shops (centre) to protect goods in the window from the sun.

It stood where the southern end of Drake's Circus shopping centre now stands. The corner this side of the obvious awnings is now home to Burton's.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

This photograph was taken in the opposite direction to H26124 (page 69), and shows the Cenotaph-style war memorial in the centre of Parliament Square.

Where the tree is seen on the left, St Mary's Church Centre now stands, sharing a forecourt with the modern flats of Gale Court.

Matlock Bank in the centre spreads up the eastern bank of the Derwent.

The illuminated Bovril sign was an integral part of the city centre scene for well over a decade.

The amenities now included a concert pavilion (at the pier head on the left), a bank kiosk and a Moorish pavilion (in the centre of the picture).

The Passmore Edwards Free Library, centre, was opened in 1896. On the right is the slate-hung Stuart House, where Charles I stayed several nights in 1644.

The amenities now included a concert pavilion (at the pier head on the left), a bank kiosk and a Moorish pavilion (in the centre of the picture).

The town centre was constructed on a plateau halfway between Laindon and Vange. The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built.

Wimborne was for centuries an important agricultural and commercial centre.

Dorchester Road 1906 Maiden Newton makes a good centre for exploring the Dorset downs. Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, though there was some quarrying in the locality.

Bowler-hatted farmers go about their business in the centre of town around the Butter and Poultry Market Hall. A few cattle can be seen on the left.

This fine view shows the River Taw meandering down to the Long Bridge (just left of centre), and behind the bridge the dark wooded mound of the castle, built in the 10th century.

Most of the buildings in the town centre date from Tudor and Jacobean days.

The Old Vicarage can be seen on the hill (centre).

Another view of Market Square, with the ivy-clad building of Wilson's High Class Confectioners and the Esthwaite Cafe in the centre of the photograph, and the King's Arms in the background.

Here we see a pleasing mixture of pantile-roofed cottages at Brookside, in the centre of the village.

Some of the sandstone cottages in the village of Swainby are still known as the Miners' Cottages, remembering the village's brief spell as an iron mining centre during the 19th century.

The photographer seems to be the centre of attraction as the family from the left-hand house peer over the hedge. The youngsters on the left watch coyly as the deed is done.

The photographer seems to be the centre of attraction as the family from the left-hand house peer over the hedge. The youngsters on the left watch coyly as the deed is done.