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The harbour was completed in 1858, with the flood gate (visible in the centre) raised for the first time on 7 October.

Now a centre of excellence in spinal injuries, Stoke Mandeville started as an isolation hospital, built in the 1930s.

The big Greek portico of the General Post Office of 1818 is prominent in the centre of the picture.

In the centre is the 98ft high bell tower of 1853.

Designed by Lanchester and Lodge, who were appointed after winning a competition in 1930, this was originally known as the Birmingham Hospitals Centre at Edgbaston; it was later named after Queen

The Ordnance Survey department has declared Dunsop Bridge to be the village nearest to the exact centre of the British Isles.

The settlement was probably established in Saxon times, though it did not become an important trading centre until the Abbot of Buckfast established a market here in 1219.

The town developed as a lace making centre, second only to Nottingham.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

They built a two-storey shopping centre with two wide malls and covered arcades.

A major boating centre to this day, Braunston was the northern end of the Grand Junction canal.

This lovely old picture of the village centre shows the Post Office and a Post Office van outside.

The town was a centre for the manufacture of flannels, coarse woollen cloths and kerseys.

Once used as a holiday home by the sixteen-year-old Beatrix Potter and her family, the castle was later acquired by the National Trust, and has for many years been used as a training centre for marine

We are looking down onto the old bridge with the castle in the centre left of the picture.

This photograph shows the village centre with its rows of pretty cottages.

A far noisier centre was established nearby when RAF Binbrook was built during the Second World War.

Built in the mid 1950s, it was followed into the town by the Ford Engineering Research Centre at Dunton.

Cottages on the other side rise from Lea Cottage (left of centre), to the terrace comprising Hydrangea Cottage, Clematis Cottage, Rosemary Cottage and Sunset Cottage (beside the telephone

redevelopment since the end of the second world war, not only with projects such as the Broadgate shopping precinct, but an American-inspired partly-elevated ring-road that surrounds the old city centre

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

The various advertisements outside the newsagent's on the right add to the period flavour of this village centre scene.

The view is north-eastwards to the Jubilee Clock and Greenhill (centre right), with the Georgian frontages of Gloucester Row and Royal Crescent facing seawards (left).

In the centre is the elegant Conduit of 1814, already reduced to acting as a traffic island.