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The three hundred rooms offered 19th-century opulence tempered with comfort and convenience in the city centre. It is now a Thistle Hotel, and has not changed externally at all.

The air traffic control centre is housed in a building which rather resembles an old war-time nissen hut; to the right of it is the quaintly-named emergency services rendezvous point.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre; it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

The National Provincial Bank, a familiar sight in most High Streets until the company's closure in the 1960s, can be seen further down the street (centre left).

The cross in the centre of the picture is a memorial to those killed in both the First and Second World Wars. The Bell Stores, shown on the right, is now a private house.

The exquisite Guildhall is in the centre of this view of the High Street. It was built in 1330, remodelled in 1468, and the portico over the pavement added in 1592.

Bullenshaw House was a residential home, but it is now used as a resource centre for older people.

The Central Market (centre left) opened in 1901, but was replaced recently by a more modern facility opposite.

At the time of Leland, Worcester was a busy centre for the cloth trade.

Topsham, downstream from her weir, flourished as a port, as exporters were forced to ship wool from this new centre of commerce.

This view shows the main street with the Old School, centre, which closed in 1964.

The Commodore Inn (now the Unicorn) stands in the centre of the view, with the village hall on the right.

All these structures were demolished when the Victoria Shopping Centre was built in the early 1970s.

The Foresters' Hall is now the British Legion Hall (centre) with No 50 the prominent house behind it. The three-storey terrace of dwellings extends from No 27 to No 35.

On one side of the green the Baptist chapel is still active, but the Chequers pub and Lloyds Bank (right) have gone, and the old Baptist Hall is now the new health centre.

The fountain in the centre of Wigton's Square or Market Place has a pyramidal cross-topped spire, and depicted on its four sides are the four Acts of Mercy.

The clearing in the centre is the site of the famous folly, while on the right the top of Mount Edgecumbe House can be seen peep- ing from the trees.

Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.

Early iron working appears to have been centred upon Cowshill and Ireshope, though in time it spread throughout much of the dale.

Originally Station Road, Minehead's Avenue was built in the 1870s to link the newly built railway station with the town centre. Its elegant houses soon became guesthouses, and are now shops.

Cottages cluster around the green, with the gable end of the chapel in the centre background.

In the centre of the town is the 1728 brick-built Old Town Hall, with an open arcaded ground floor.

Since the 1820s Runcorn has been a centre for the chemical industry, with factories producing a wide range of products.

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.