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Between the 14th and early 19th centuries, Bursledon was an important centre for naval shipbuilding, with the wooded slopes of the River Hamble providing much of the timber.

Swanage remained a centre of the quarrying industry until well into the last century.

Here we see a busy scene in Forest Row's attractive centre on the London to Eastbourne Road (A22). Forest Row grew after the arrival of the railway in 1866, and became a parish in 1894.

In the centre of the photograph we can see the 64ft, red brick lighthouse on the Brush Wharf, built at a cost of £400.

Today the library has moved to the Crown Centre, and this building is part of Stourbridge College, as it is now known.

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

Whilst the bicycles remain a common feature, cars have vanished with city centre pedestrianisation. The bollards of 2003 go up and down to control the traffic - the old ones disappeared years ago.

Both locomotives are now housed in the Darlington Railway Centre & Museum, North Road Station.

From Boarsbarrow Hill, this view looks to St Mary Magdalene Parish Church and Georgian Loders Court, which is the home of Viscount and Viscountess Hood (centre). The woods of Waddon rise behind.

Abbot's Quay and Holy Trinity Church (centre) are beyond. The other buildings are Bridge House and the Old Granary Restaurant (right).

The building to the centre is now without its bay window. Note the sign on the left advertising Cadbury's chocolate and the cobbled street leading up to the church.

The butcher on the extreme right arranges his display, and the postman in the centre delivers letters.

Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

Tyrell's butchers shop at No 44 is a reminder that the town then had several such shops and now, in the whole of the town centre, there is not one left.

In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775. With the exception of a curious bystander, the broad street is totally devoid of any traffic.

This photograph captures an ice cream vendor waiting for business in the village centre. Before the M4 motorway existed, traffic from London came through Datchet en route to Windsor.

It became noted for its rose gardens and as the popular centre for the annual Carnival funfair. The picture shows some of the well-kept flower beds.

Another important aspect of this development is a new park, and this forms part of a wider vision to improve access to, and the environment of, the whole of the green wedge that runs through the centre

The castle can be clearly seen on the right of the picture and the tower of St Mary's with one of its clock faces to the centre of the picture on the horizon.

The building to the centre is now without its bay window. Note the sign on the left advertising Cadbury`s chocolate and the cobbled street leading up to the church.

Cyclists wobble and weave, one hanging on to the shoulder of another (centre), as a charabanc bound for the attraction of the Fairy Glen chugs past.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

The exquisite Guildhall is in the centre. It was built in 1330, remodelled in 1468, and the portico over the pavement added in 1592.

At one time there were three railway stations in the city centre: Central, Wellington and New.