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Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping centre

Granted a market charter by William III, Hawes later became a centre for textiles, quarrying and the production of Wensleydale cheese.

The large four-storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe shops.

Today, only the gallows pole across the street remains of its distinctive sign, while the building itself, along with Kemp's the bootmaker's, has been replaced by a massive new shopping centre.

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

The surrounding area, close to the sea, was a centre for smuggling during the 18th century.

The sign in the centre, pointing against the flow of traffic today, indicates the A369 to Bath and Bristol - the High Street used to have two-way traffic.

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints.

Ambleside is situated at the centre of the Lake District; this is now a haven for walkers, and a very busy place in the summer months.

Grassington was at one time a centre for lead mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, athough there was still some quarrying in the locality.

Founded in 1488 by King James III, this port was for many years a strong centre of Scottish ship building; also, up until the time of our photograph, it experienced a phenomenally

We are looking north-west, with St Mary's left of centre.

The coming of the railway put Helensburgh into the Glasgow commuter belt, whilst its steamer connections helped it develop as a holiday centre.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

In the centre of the crypt is the site of the tomb of St Kentigern (St Mungo) and it was over his grave that the first church was erected.

York was a military centre, and over 1,000 men were stationed here when the barracks were built.

Standing tranquilly a few minutes away from the town centre, this church was built in the 11th century.

The road curves towards the town centre, passing the end of De Vere Road.

The three-gabled and jettied timber-framed building of 1543 on the right was restored in 1929 and is now a tourist information centre.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

At the extreme centre left you can see Diglis, with its locks, docks and weir.

This picturesque cobbled square is in the centre of Hawkshead.

Why has the drophead with artillery wheels in the centre of the photograph got one tyre with white sidewalls?

Long before the sea front Pavilion Theatre was built, a small playhouse existed in the Parade in the centre of the town at the very beginning of the 19th century.