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This photograph shows Marine Parade and its beach- tents, between Langmoor Gardens (top left) and the 1922-built Bay Private Hotel (centre).

This photograph shows some of the town's best Georgian buildings, with St Mary's church in the centre.

Occupying the corner, right of centre, is Thorogood's ('Fancy Pastry Cook') - originally built as the town's first post office in the early 1870s.

It escaped demolition itself after trading ceased, and in 1975 became a library and arts centre. The building with the mock-Tudor frontage is the Town Hall.

The settlement here 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.

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

An array of Mr Cattermole's Bathing Machines is in the centre of the picture. He provided a large assortment of bathing costumes for the ladies.

The white Portland stone building was painted grey with the coming of war, but a bomb fell in the centre in 1940 killing seven people during the 9.00 pm news - which continued uninterrupted.

Shaftesbury Avenue can be seen in the centre. There is new traffic fencing up against Eros, which today has been moved a little to the left as part of a wide pedestrian area.

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.

It is unusual in being mainly residential, with commercial development centred on Bridgnorth Road.

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road. Erected in the 1960s, it neatly sums up the building trends of the time.

Newport's importance as a mercantile centre is shown here in this photograph of vessels loading and unloading on the banks of the Medina.

In this view from the top of St Mary's tower, the castle ruins can be seen in the centre background.

The Stow was to be the New Town's first major shopping centre. The design is Z-shaped, running from north to south to catch as much sunlight as possible, with a square at each end.

The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.

Note the hay rake, coal-scuttles and assortment of pip- ing and rope adorning the window of the local iron- mongers in the centre of Lyndhurst.

Although Oastler was from Huddersfield, Bradford was chosen for the site of his statue as his campaign to reduce working hours for factory children was centred in the city.

Scheregate, the lane in the centre, sits astride Colchester's town wall. The house straddling Scheregate Steps replaces a Roman postern.

Two paddle steamers are berthed on the opposite quay, and in the centre of the picture a lady is being rowed down to the river. We can just see the swing bridge in the background.

Later, the town became a centre for 'fancy' goods such as cords, velveteens, and fine woollens.

Two paddle steamers are berthed on the opposite quay, and in the centre of the picture a lady is being rowed down to the river. We can just see the swing bridge in the background.

Once an important wool centre, Brackley is a pleasant country town; its wide main street is more than a mile long.

We are looking upstream from the centre of the 14th-century stone bridge across the Thames where it crosses Nag's Head Island.