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The historic Swan Inn, left of centre, was mentioned in the Frome Rate Book of 1663. The decorative lamp in the foreground on the right has now gone.

Blue carts and yellow omnibuses, varnished carriages and brown vans, pale loads of yellow straw ... this is the vortex and whirlpool, the centre of human life today on the earth.’

It began as an agricultural community; it later developed as an industrial centre, concentrating on rush mats, lace, the quarrying of ironstone, and the manufacture of boots and shoes.

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A century after his visit, the town had been transformed from a quiet village to a vibrant centre for the textile industry.

Today the upper floor is used as a Heritage Centre and houses a museum that tells the history of the town.

In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

The ungainly motor vehicle in the centre is still an unusual enough feature for it to be attracting the attention of bystanders.

Our photographer is looking from the very spot where the Lowry Centre on Salford Quay is today.

Lying close to the larger holiday centre of Morecambe, Heysham has been popular with visitors since the Victorian period, many coming to sample the famous locally brewed nettle beer.

Ashford was a centre of lead mining in the 18th and 19th centuries, and is now a popular tourist village.

Mr Frost, a local farmer, had to sell some of his land to allow Ford's to build their international distribution centre which opened in 1968.

The post office at the entrance to the Shambles (centre) was built in 1901. It is a fine example of early 20th-century architecture, with echoes of the past in the corner oriel window.

The east end of Brimington's 19th-century parish church is just visible behind the trees in this view of the centre of the village, between Chesterfield and Staveley.

Besides being a market centre and wool town, Fairford was on an important coaching route in the days of horse-drawn travel, as it straddled the road from London to the south-west.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

The promenade was formerly the towing path for barges and boats with meadows to the south, but these are now tamed, and the southern part is now occupied by the very modern Rivermead Leisure Centre

In the centre a horse and cart stand by the pond; perhaps they have visited this spot so that the animal could have a drink of fresh water at Picklefoot Spring, which emerges here.

In the centre of the picture, by the shelter, is the site of the late 15th-century Torbay House, which was built over an ale house of ancient origin.

The Black Swan of Home Ales Brewery, a popular edge-of-centre inn, is facing the brand-new supermarket selling best salmon at 3s 11d a tin and its own-brand tea at 1s 3d per packet.

Note the fine carriage on the right, the Victorian family stepping out and the delivery boy in the centre.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

We are in the centre of the linear village of Long Preston, which is bisected by the busy A65 Skipton to Kirkby Lonsdale road.

A cyclist makes his way to Mid Hants Supply Stores in the centre of the village. To the right is a Victorian school and the church of St Barnabas.