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In Wallingford's town centre is a fine Market Place.

This settlement was once a centre for smuggling, a flourishing local industry that continued until the turn of the century, just before this photograph was taken.

The left hand side of the street, in contrast, has been redeveloped as part of the Old George Mall shopping centre.

The Bugle Inn 1923 Yarmouth is an excellent centre for exploring the western half of the Isle of Wight, with Totland and Alum Bays and the Needles being not far away.

A horse-drawn bus from Minster, bottom centre, remained busy, though, and Brockmans Restaurant, fourth building on the right, attracted a hungry crowd.

Now known as Crown Square, this busy junction at the centre of Matlock has always been the hub of the town.

The River Winniford (right), trickling down the valley from Chideock village, seeps into Lyme Bay through a bank of pebbles below the Anchor Inn (centre).

The house in the centre, Cabbaches, proclaims the date 1390 on a plaque near its front door.

Bala was also a centre for the manfactur of Welsh flannel and tanning. The town has a long history: a Roman fort has been found near by.

Before the construction of the town centre, there were few shops in the new Basildon. Initially, just two small Co-ops served the first few hundred inhabitants in the Fryerns neighbourhood.

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.

The grid pattern of the streets in the centre of Wells strongly suggests that the town was a planned one, probably by the abbey of Ramsey (in Lincolnshire) which owned it some 700 years ago.

Malton stands at the junction of many roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

The monument, topped by a finial (right), marks the centre, and records the death in 1729 of William Sparrow, the creator of the maze.

The motor cycle with sidecar (centre) is now a rare sight.

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

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.

In the centre of the picture is a sailing wherry, the shallow, wide bottomed boat with its characteristic square sail, an adaptation of the traditional trading wherry.

This street, which was once the main road into Nottingham from the south and crowded with people and traffic, is now pedestrianised and the direct route between the city's two shopping centres.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

Before that, ships tied up at the churchyard wall of St Saviour's, the tower of which, built in 1631, can be seen in the centre.

The building was once used by the Yorkshire Hussars as an officers' mess; it is now the York Tourist Information Centre. The bus is heading for Linton, a scenic village in the Yorkshire Dales.

This view of St Peter's Church, which stands at the junction of St Peter's Street and East Street in the city centre, shows just how busy the traffic was then.

Many of the buildings on the right hand side of Frenchgate were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Arndale Centre.