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The Parade is Nork's local shopping centre, a left turn off Fir Tree Road; Eastgate on the left, out of camera shot, has large three-storey blocks of 1930s flats.

At the east end of the village, the village green has the war memorial at its centre.

The area near the village green is still the centre for visitors. There are cafes, souvenir shops and workshops for the famous serpentine stone which became popular in Victorian times.

The Red Lion Inn shown here at the centre of the picture survives where others, such as the Bell (on the left) have not; public houses sprang up alongside the canal route which opened to great national

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

The church stands in the background, and a social centre/parish hall was opened between it and the school in 1968.

Note the Beach Cafe (left) and the groynes on Charmouth beach; we are looking eastwards to Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Offshore are the Mouth Rocks.

The lintels to the right of the picture have been shaped, with mortises beaten into the stone; the upright stone to the centre right has been vertically tapered to avoid optical distortion.

Looking southwards through the desirable heart of the town`s northern suburb, we can see No 50 further down the street (left of centre) and Nos 53 to 59 (far right) on the other side.

Looking east from the western end of the village, we can see the road junction beside what has become a single Burwell Cottage (centre). Rectory Lane used to be called Duck Street.

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

The fountain and statue in the fernery (centre) was made by Joseph Durham in 1868.

On the corner of the green is the 18th-century Swan Inn (centre right), while nearer is a pair of Victorian cottages dated 1870.

We are looking westwards down East Hill, towards the parish church (centre).

The memorial seat commemorates the six agricultural labourers who met beneath the sycamore tree (centre) in 1834, and were transported to Australia for taking an illegal oath during an initiation

By the late 1800s there were three shops here; one of them, Grice the chemist's (in the centre), was to occupy these premises for many years to come.

It is just possible to make out three carved heads under the large window in the centre - in fact there are four heads here altogether, one of which depicts Queen Victoria.

Today the Town Hall, beyond, could be described as a shell fronting the new Crown Centre shopping arcade, which was built in the 1980s.

The newer Bournemouth International Centre, with its 3500 capacity auditorium, has now joined the Pier Theatre and the Wessex and Tregonwell Halls to make the city the entertainment capital of the

In the centre of the view is Anne's Corner, a picturesque house with timber-framing to the upper floor.

The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.

The cab rank and shelter have, of course, gone; further along to the right is now the grossly porticoed entrance to the Angel Place Shopping Centre.

At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

The rambling building at the centre of the photograph is The Cowheards pub.