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We can see the signs of the industry in this charming view - crab and lobster pots are stacked on the pier, and the premises of Dawson's, the fish salesman, are beside the sea wall, centre left.

It was converted in 1983, and is now the Business Design Centre.

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

To the right is the town hall of 1867, now the Guildhall Centre, while the house to its right was replaced by a library and museum in the 1950s.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

The house left centre was St Agnes, and became a doctor's surgery.

It is an important market centre.

In the 18th century Bala was a centre for the great religious revival that led to Welsh nonconformism.

The Queen's Arms pub of about 1840 provided a social centre for New Mill, but it was demolished for road improvement some twenty years ago.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

About the time this picture was taken, plans by Sheppard Fidler had been accepted for a 461-acre development to include sixteen-storey tower blocks, two shopping centres, schools, community buildings

The jeweller`s shop, H Samuel (centre distance), which was beneath the clock, was once the former Post Office.

This photograph shows the old village centre, looking from the Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels.

Unlike many other Welsh towns, whose growth was based on coal or iron and steel, Carmarthen had long been a market town and the centre for an age-old agricultural tradition.

Two heavily laden small craft are ready to set sail (centre).

The Nelson in Harbour Street is in the centre of the photograph.

In the village centre is the church of St Michael and All Angels.

The accountants Forrester Boyd & Co at 7 Corn Market next door have been replaced by Hanson's the bakers, and next door is now the Louth Vision Centre.

Today the baths are all indoors in the Crystal Leisure Centre which opened in 1989, an appropriate name for a town with a long tradition of producing fine glass.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

The 1898 version was completely destroyed in a wartime air raid, along with much of the town centre.

Also typical of Saltburn is the extensive mandatory use of white firebricks from the Pease Company for the construction of the town centre.

The first, opposite the telephone box (in the distance on the right), was kept by Ella Kemp, the second was in the house with the posting box (centre).