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The Market Square is notable for the Cock's elaborate ironwork bracket, and for the famously wonky timbered carriageway (centre right).

Another important aspect of this development is a new park, and this forms part of a wider vision to improve access to, and the environment of, the whole of the green wedge that runs through the centre

This view looks north-eastwards to St Martin's Parish Church (right), and the distinctive 599-feet profile of Shipton Hill (centre).

In the centre of the picture, the George and Dragon, with its quaint porch and balcony supported on brackets, was originally an old posting inn.

In more recent times the undercroft has been converted into a bookshop and exhibition centre.

In the centre is a terrace called Cornforth Hill.

The prominent building in the centre was used for many years as a nursery by the city parks department.

In the centre of the picture is the Gaumont cinema, which opened as the Regent in 1927; to the right is Cole Brothers department store.

Poole did not become a holiday resort for many years, but retained its importance as a port and merchant centre.

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

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.

The stall in the centre seems to be selling bottled drinks and perhaps biscuits.

Standing out in the distant centre is an attractive house where beer was once sold.

Poole did not become a holiday resort for many years, but retained its importance as a port and merchant centre.

Maiden Newton makes a good centre for exploring the Dorset downs.

This view shows more clearly houses on the right with the same house that we saw in F164012, page 54, in the centre distance.

The Cathedral city of Worcester is situated almost in the centre of Worcestershire, on the banks of the River Severn.

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.

The former pier runs across the centre of the picture.

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

On the right is the post office; near here is the point that the Ordnance Survey declared was the centre of the British Isles.

Note the bollards in the centre of the road - an early form of traffic calming - which were subsequently removed.

The Capital and Counties Bank (centre) is now Lloyds TSB.