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Are the two men (centre left) discussing the latest scandal of the day - a dance craze known as the Charleston?

All were demolished in 1998 to make way for the Touchwood Centre, a shopping and leisure complex which opened in 2001.

The large building at the centre is the Spread Eagle, an inn since the 16th century and probably belonging to the abbey before then.

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

The ornate stone wellhead in the centre of the bath copies that in a well-known 17th-century print showing scenes of uninhibited mixed bathing.

Its bell turret was replaced in 1974 by the South Holland Centre, an extremely busy building architecturally but quite enjoyable.

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

By the mid-1950s, Leek had become a major centre for the knitwear industry: three-quarters of all the scarves worn in the UK were said to have been manufactured in the town.

The tower of the 14th- century St Mary`s Church, surprisingly positioned some way from the town centre, rises above the graceful Georgian frontages along this throughfare.

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

Forty years before this photograph was taken, war memorials like Preston Candover's (centre right) were being erected in villages up and down the country to commemorate the young men of these communities

Here we see busy shoppers, but little traffic - one man (centre right) is even able to pause in the middle of the road to pick something up!

The castle stands at the centre of a neat estate-type village, which is perhaps best known for champion jockey Sir Gordon Richards' racing stables.

A classic view of Tarn Hows, near Hawkshead, with the peaks of the Langdale Pikes in the centre background.

This shot was taken at the southern end of Market Street, which leads to that area of town that was traditionally the main shopping centre.

The first Welwyn Stores was founded in 1921 at Guessens road, but it closed in July 1939 when the new, larger stores was opened in the centre of the new town.

Havant Arts Centre and Havant Museum are also to be found here.

Dealers cast a critical eye over a pony as it is led past them outside The Angel Hotel in the centre of the village.

In the centre is Hiller's Garage, now Scarlett, with the skeleton framework of the present workshop, which will block the view of the church from here.

The statue in the centre of the Square is the town's war memorial – Crewe was a new industrial town with a relatively youthful population, so that many of the town's men were called up to serve in both

Highgate's cottage kitchen with its cast iron range and beamed ceiling was the centre of family life.

This view up Parish Road affords a glimpse of what was a centre of communication for the village.

As neo-Georgian buildings replaced the older local shops, the shopping centre of Kettering also developed wth nation-wide multiple stores.

Everything bears the hallmarks of the late 1950s and early 60s—from the contours of the ice-cream van (right) to the Guinness advertisement (with the shoe-soles) on the hoarding (centre left).