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The Windmill Garage and Store (centre left) now supplies UK Petroleum. This is the A1031 coastal road to Grimsby, with the sea to the right.

After belonging to various owners it was purchased by the YMCA, and has become an international training centre with many and varied courses available for young people of all ages and nationalities.

Many of the sturdy, timber-framed cottages in the centre of this lovely village have been reinforced and decorated with brickwork during the 18th century.

The crane (centre right) was used to position long timbers across the harbour entrance to provide shelter during rough weather; today a swinging gate performs the same function.

Land opposite often saw overspills of crowds from town centre events such as the unveiling of the war memorial until it was developed as St Chad`s Gardens in 1925.

One would not now dream of walking down the centre of this road. The line of the paling on the left marked the boundary of the old Borough of Petersfield.

This view looks across the harbour and the boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement

For a few brief years Rotherham became a centre of learning, until the college was closed during the Dissolution.

It operates on the Fell system, whereby a third rail is laid in the centre of the track.

There was no problem with parking at this time, in what is now a very busy area, within walking distance of the main shopping centre. Attractive lamp posts line the pavement.

In the centre of the picture is St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal parish church, photographed at the time when Dick Sheppard was the vicar.

This is the main automotive route north from the city centre yet pedestrians appear happy to saunter UP the road rather than across it!

In the centre stands Howell's 1930s extension - a stylish addition much lauded by architecture and design historians.

A waterbus (centre) enables exploration of its eight-mile waterfront. The St David's Hotel & Spa (second from right) was completed along with the barrage in 1999.

Golden masonry radiant in the sunshine and the cool green shade of the old cemetery make the area a city centre oasis. It now even boasts a café popular with both workers and tourists alike.

The Highland Fling hotel and café (left) spent some years as an extremely large antiquarian bookshop and antiques centre before reverting back to being a café.

The centre of the village dates from the restoration and repairs begun in 1752 by Lord Crewe's trustees.

Wrexham's prosperity was founded on its position at the centre of the north Welsh coalfield, which fed local iron-, steel- and gasworks.

Centre right is the Ship Inn, and on the left the Lifeboat House. Porthleven's first lifeboat, in 1863, was the 'Agar Robartes', which was replaced in 1882 by the 'Charles Henry White'.

This view looks south-west along the Bulbourne Road, with 1890s cottages on the left and the New Mill Social Centre on the right.

In the form of a cross, it is built in the Corinthian style, and surmounted by the giant dome which rises on arches over the centre.

Leeds also became the leading centre for the manufacture of ready-to-wear clothes.

Completed in 1841, the Parish Church is now at the centre of much riverside regeneration. Back in Victorian times it was surrounded by a degenerate Leeds, including drinking-houses and prostitution.

At its centre is the square Market Place with a medieval market cross whose shaft can be seen to the left.