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The clothes of the traders may have changed, but Melton has been at the centre of the sheep farming industry for a number of centuries.

The property is occupied by an undertaker's today, and the post office is now a dental centre.

The Blakeney, built two years before this photograph was taken, remains today a traditional, friendly hotel and conference centre, maintaining high standards and offering impressive views across

Looking directly westwards from St Mawes, it is possible to have an uninterrupted view of marine traffic approaching Falmouth, which has been a centre of commerce for centuries.

The Frome Valley, dotted with mills and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry. Chalford itself stands on the steep north bank.

Central station is now Manchester's G-Mex Centre.

This quiet, shaded street offered a little respite from the bustle of the market centre. The jumble of roof lines reveals how city streets often developed piecemeal.

To the west the Melton Mowbray road reaches the town centre via Westgate, a wide street seen here looking north-east towards Market Place.

Today this scene has changed very little, although Austin the gunsmith's (left), and the pastrycook's shop (centre) have changed hands many times over the years.

They may, of course, be waiting for the New Inn (centre) to open its doors and provide them with the chance to discuss how the coastal area was rapidly turning into a prime tourist spot.

It is often said to have been founded by Lady Godiva, but Meriden's main claim to fame is the ancient cross on the village green reputed to mark the centre of England.

On the left are convalescent cotton mill workers; but as mills closed all over Lancashire, the building closed as a convalescent home and was bought by Wyre Borough Council to be their Civic Centre—it

The centre of Garstang has been spared the worst ravages of modern development and, although generally now more busy than depicted here, remains largely unchanged.

But in the 16th century, Alford was also a major glass-making centre. The tile-hung Crown Inn on the Loxwood Road was on the smuggler's route from Sussex to the north.

Outside the Sir Charles Napier public house stands a telephone box (centre right). On the wall next door is a large Guinness advertisement.

Barrel Rock (centre right, with the marker post) marks the end of Bude's breakwater. The first one was destroyed in a storm in 1838 and was replaced by one designed by James Walker.

A Victorian Tudor-style 'baronial pile', it is now the Amithaba Buddhist Centre; for some years it was a school, as in this view.

Hill Bottom (centre), south-west of Renscombe Farm is seen here in a view towards Chapman's Pool and Houn's-tout Cliff The slopes of the Plain and St Alban's Head (left) rise to the south.

Incredible numbers of peo- ple crammed aboard paddle steamers such as the 'Empress' (centre) which has just arrived in Lulworth Cove.

Left of centre is the sprawling old house called Stagbury, a late 18th-century house demolished in the 1970s.

The centre of the bridge still opens to allow for passage through to Devonshire Dock. This bridge was opened in 1886, and replaced an earlier swing bridge.

There are two trains in the station, one barely visible in the background (centre left).

of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.There was no problem with parking at this time, in what is now a very busy area, within walking distance of the main shopping centre

At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.