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The centre house with two-storeyed mullion windows is 16th-century. Note the excellent thatch. However, the shop has a Welsh slate roof, despite being a stone building.

Note the pier (now removed) up the coast in the far distance, the cinema in the centre of the picture and J Bailey, 'Family Butcher' on this side of it.

Known as 'Ap'trick' to its residents, Appletreewick was once a centre for lead mining, but farming and tourism are the dual economies of today.

Dunn Square is a haven of tranquil peace amidst the bustle of a busy town centre.

North Walsham was once a significant weaving centre. Its prosperity was increased after a canal was dug connecting the River Ant with the Broads.

In the background the buildings are Montpelier Parade (left), Cambridge Crescent (centre), and the Prospect Hotel which opened in 1859, but was enlarged in 1870.

This is yet another parish church in secular use: this one is now the Colchester Arts Centre.

This is yet another parish church in secular use: this one is now the Colchester Arts Centre.

The large spa building in the centre of the view was rebuilt in 1877 after a catalogue of disasters. It was damaged by storms in 1808, 1825 and 1836.

By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development. Reckitts Blue—advertised on the fence—was a well-known bleaching agent of the time.

Partially rebuilt in 1910, the New Inn (centre right) was renamed the Bankes Arms Hotel, after the family that owned the parish.

There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.

The Red Lion Hotel, on the right of the picture, gives its name to the square in the centre of the village, now dominated by traffic in a one-way system.The two cyclists meandering down the middle

The pines of Crag Wood are prominent in the centre of the photograph, while the slopes of Dodd sweep up the lake shore beyond.

There is also a visitor centre here.

It was one of several bus routes which provided Rainham people with a link to major workplaces and shopping centres.

OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition

On the right is the post office; near here is the point that the Ordnance Survey declared was the centre of the British Isles. To mark the spot, they erected a public telephone box.

Today the village and bay are looked after by the St Margaret's Bay Trust, who were formed in 1970; they have created the Pines Gardens, a community centre, and a youth club.

In this early view of Matlock Bath, the crocketed spire of the parish church of the Holy Trinity is prominent in the right centre, with the River Derwent on the left.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

There are some fine stone buildings around the centre of the village - though around the edges some restored labourers' cottages can be seen.

By the time this photograph was taken, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity as this view of the town centre shows.

Note the bollards in the centre of the road - an early form of traffic calming - which were subsequently removed. Local inhabitants have requested their return for safety reasons.