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This linked the Mersey ports with industrial centres in the heart of England. Today the Boat Museum in the dock area reminds us of the way of life of those early boatmen and their families.

The magpie building in the centre here is now the National Westminster Bank – when the photograph is enlarged, a sign is visible which reads 'District Bank'.

Facing down the street (centre) is the Corner Café, now an optician's shop, whilst the café on the left is now an Indian restaurant.

Dunmow`s post office has been in the red brick building (centre) since 1939. A barn, used for meetings by local dissenters, once stood on the site.

Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).

This view shows the exterior of the main hall, the most impressive of the ruins left, and now the centre of a public park.

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

role as a 5,500-seat concert venue but the vast events complex was also designed to house a wide selection of corporate and conference suites and the globally-linked Cardiff World Trade Centre

From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire.

This village is just outside Basingstoke, and at its centre is the pond with its family of ducks. It is here that the annual Christmas carol concert is held every year.

The war memorial honouring the dead of the two World Wars is seen here in the centre.

This scene in the centre of the pretty village of Hutton-le-Hole on the edge of the North York Moors is unchanged in the last 50 years.

Parkgate was a popular yachting centre. Some of the boys on the beach were probably from Mostyn House School in the town; the yacht in the foreground is a typical 12ft vessel favoured by the school.

It is an ideal centre for exploring the Isle of Purbeck, and there is much of interest within the village boundary.

A new visitor centre now marks the entrance to Conisbrough Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in the country.

The left-hand side of the street, beyond the tall white facade of Robert's shop, would soon change dramatically with the construction of the Forge Shopping Centre.

The Scotland Road area can be seen in the distance - this was at a time before the impact of the building of the Cockhedge Shopping Centre in the 1980s.

Bridge Street was clearly Warrington's shopping centre in the 1950s. The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

Further along Crag Path is the former red and white brick watchtower (centre). On the right is a later extension to the Jubilee Hall of 1889.

The larger house with the dramatic jetty (centre) is Highbank, a medieval hall house. The thatched extension at this end has been demolished.

The trees in the centre have been cut back for safety and to allow some light into the two houses.

The driver of the 658 Leicester to Coventry Midland Red bus service breaks his journey to await passengers in this familiar view of the centre.

The castle can be seen in the centre of the picture. The Moravians once held meetings in a building in the street before relocating uphill to St Thomas's Green.

Totnes had a medieval wall around the centre, much of it still intact.