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The institute, which offered a range of evening classes for workers, and was famed for its penny lectures, was one of the earlier projects linked with a major redevelopment of the town centre

The village is now noted as an art and craft centre. Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

We are looking at the medieval Cobb harbour (centre) from the tennis ground on the cliffs south of Langmoor Gardens.

So too were aspects of the 'alternative society', who used Stonehenge for all sorts of spiritual enlightenment or protest, as can be seen by the CND sign daubed on the stone in the centre.

Sheffield's churches, chapels and missions ministered not only to the religious needs of the people, but were often at the very centre of community life and fulfilled many of the roles now taken

Within a century, the town was one of the leading cloth-producing centres in Europe. The statue seen here is of Sir Rowland Hill, creator of the penny post.

Because of its history of divided land ownership, it is difficult to determine the real centre of Mobberley village, but each nucleus has at least one inn.

Ashby Road becomes the High Street at the crossroads (centre); to the left is Packington Hill, and to the right Broadhill Road.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, with enough fish being landed for the North Eastern Railway to run

George Underwood has his name painted on a large board in the centre, but he was licensee only during 1904/05.

Since the 18th century, the town has been a centre for the brewing of beer. The breweries used the Wharfe to bring in raw materials and transport finished products.

Seen in the centre of the photograph, but also marginalized, are the houses alongside the old Hereford Road and the steam of the Hereford to Abergavenny train.

Centre left stands the Bear Hotel, a lovely old coaching inn dating back to 1432. The shop next door to it sold fishing tackle— fishing is one of the area's most popular pastimes.

Here ducks dabble peacefully in the beck which runs through the centre of the village, while a mother proudly poses with her baby.

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

This photograph recalls the days when there was very little traffic to clog our town centres.

Now known as Moulton College and the Hulcot Centre, it still serves the same function, with the addition of a farm produce shop. Most of the agricultural college buildings date from the 1930s.

At the end of the street is the Village Centre, a former school, while to its left you can just see the chancel of the medieval parish church.

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

The exciting Festival Leisure Park has a wide mix of attractions including a multiplex cinema, a huge ten pin bowling centre, an indoor tennis and fitness centre, nightclubs, family entertainment

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel can be seen left of centre, and the old white-walled Ship Hotel us to the extreme right. The houses on the left are in Scarbrough Avenue.

(They are the three in the centre).

Note the refreshment rooms (now a house) on the right, and the boy in shorts in the centre of the photograph.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.