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It has long been at the centre of life in Helston, having functioned as gaol, excise house and tax office, as well as hosting the more usual functions such as balls and meetings.

This view shows clearly the entrance to the courtyard in the centre of the building.

Doncaster owes its transformation from an agricultural to an industrial centre to the coming of the railways.

Doncaster owes its transformation from an agricultural to an industrial centre to the coming of the railways.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

The old school sign in the centre of the photograph warns motorists that the village school is on the left.

Everyone is posing for the camera right through the town centre, and in the road too. Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right.

The settlement was probably established in Saxon times, though it did not become an important trading centre until the Abbot of Buckfast established a market here in 1219.

St Swithun's Church can just be glimpsed (look for the pinnacle) near the centre of the picture. Built in 1736, it is claimed to be one of the most perfect churches of its period in Britain.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

At the heart of Southampton lies the Civic Centre, with its council offices, law courts and art gallery.

The large building in the centre was erected in 1879 on the site of an earlier small shop.

Designed by Lanchester and Lodge, who were appointed after winning a competition in 1930, this was originally known as the Birmingham Hospitals Centre at Edgbaston; it was later named after Queen Elizabeth

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

Another iron-making village, situated on a tributary of the River Mole, Leigh (pronounced 'Lye') is centred on this demure, triangular village green with its covered pump.

The YMCA outdoor activities centre on the western shore of Windermere a little distance north of Lakeside occupies 240 acres, with a lake frontage of half a mile.

In the centre Vera, wife of Reg Jeavons the owner, is helping to pick larkspur.

Today, it serves as the museum of the Peak District Mines Historical Society and as the Matlock Bath Tourist Information Centre.

Higher up Main Street stands the Grange Institute, a social and recreation centre and the base for the town's snooker club, where there are two fine slate snooker tables.

Many inns, like the White Hart (centre), originated to serve the passing trade.

The Mumbles-Swansea train in the centre of the photograph is heading for or leaving the Elms Terminus.

In the 1930s it was seen as an obstruction to the development of the town centre and was demolished.

The tower of the National School is in the centre, the Bell crossroads are in the distance, and Roomes store will be built to the right of the photographer.

The petrol station on the left with its splendid National Benzole, Esso Extra and Fina petrol pumps is now a Kwik-Fit tyre and exhaust centre.