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On the left is the Sugarloaf Hotel, its sign recalling the town's heyday as a coaching centre.

The view is southwards to the Cobb warehouses and Cobb hamlet (left), beyond Westfield (centre) and a terrace of early 19th- century town houses.

The newsagents and tobacconists shop – Robinsons, centre - displays the wealth of bold advertising material so typical of the period.

Opened to the public in 1873, it was the only source of recreation for working-class families living in the crowded town centre courtyards.

In the centre is the Institute, and the shop with the blind down was F Bromley, a butcher's.

The garage (centre) has been without petrol pumps since 1995. The Swan Inn, beyond, closed in the 1930s and is now called Carisbrook. In the distance is a row of mock-Tudor cottages.

The White Horse (centre) was built in two stages in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The lower section has Victorian gothic dormer windows.

The 1891 Pier Pavilion (centre) stands at the entrance to the pier, and at the end of the pier twin lighthouses flank the harbour mouth.

Redditch town centre occupies high ground near the northern end of the prehistoric Ridgeway.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

To the north-east lies the Second World War airfield which has been the centre for army flying since 1958.

In more recent times it has become the shopping centre for West Dorset and a development site for light industry.

Cluntergate is one of the main roads leading out from the centre of Horbury, whose main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of the famous 18th-century architect always, but erroneously, known as

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

The principal centres were the North Road Works of Darlington, Shildon Wagon Works, and locomotive manufacturers Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn, who were based at Gateshead.

Here we see shoppers in the centre of town on what was obviously a warm summer's morning, and with a surprisingly low level of traffic.

The signpost with all its information (centre) has also gone.

The first people to live here built their houses from mud (the area later became an important centre for brick production), so that Lye came to be known as the 'Mud City'.

The laundrette is there today, and The Fruiterers (centre) has become the Fruit Garden. Two doors along to the right, Kennedy`s remains, and so does its neighbour Walters the butcher.

At the top of the flight is a Visitor Centre with plenty of information, and it is possible to walk down the flight.

Crays Hill has, in the past, been at the centre of various speculative transport schemes: there was once talk of an Islington-Wallasea railway passing this way, as well as plans to link the village to

In 1823 Scarborough was a maritime centre, and home to no fewer than 59 master mariners and 56 registered ship owners. However, it was also one of the earliest seaside resorts in the country.

The bustling village of Hawes is the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, and the economic and social centre for the farmers of the dale.

Visible amongst the trees is Wellwood (background, centre right). Bardsea once had a pier where pleasure steamers from Fleetwood tied up.