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The drinking fountain, centre middle distance, was about to begin its travels, first to a position in front of the church, then in 1977 to a pedestrian bridge over the stream near the present Ramswalk

The village is now noted as an art and craft centre.

Behind the Best Kept Village sign (centre) stands Datchworth's whipping post.

Appropriately still running beside trees at Burley Villas and Abbeyfield (centre), Silver Street was named in the Middle Ages for the Latin word for a wooded setting, rather than the precious metal.

In 1994, his daughter-in-law, the present Duchess of Kent, visited the school, by now the Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College, to open the new Pursglove Centre.

During the Second World War, the War Office used it as a medical centre.

Boots were to move three times, epitomising the changing importance of different parts of the town centre.

This is the old village centre.

The gable- ended house at the centre of the picture at the end of the High Street was demol- ished when Tavern Lane was widened in about 1955.

Before by-passes and motorways, Gloucester's location as a route centre meant that virtually all traffic from the south-west heading north, and all traffic from South Wales heading east (

It was erected in 1914 (the date appears above the stained glass main doorway in the centre of the building), and was officially opened in 1916.

Here on the right is the old Temperance Hall, next to the Literary Institute, now the National Park Centre.

It was built for the tramway which connected the Lancaster Canal with Walton and is now in daily use as an entrance to the Fishergate Centre car park.

By 1955 The Bay Private Hotel (centre) is catering again for civilians.

WALKING AROUND Walsall town centre today there is little to show visitors what the town looked like in its early years.

The Dog and Partridge (centre left) looks much as it does today.

Boots were to move three times, epitomising the changing importance of different parts of the town centre.

Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop (centre).

At centre-right is Morse's department store, 10/12 Regent Street.

The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.

It shows Westgate, the main thoroughfare of the town centre, and leading off to the left is Westgate Road, opened up in 1876 on the site of the former driveway to Sunnyfield House, a prominent private

It was built for the tramway which connected the Lancaster Canal with Walton and is now in daily use as an entrance to the Fishergate Centre car park.

The city even went through a Venetian phase, represented to this day in John Honeyman's Ca' d'Oro (1872) and the Templeton Business Centre (formerly a carpet factory), which was modelled on the

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.