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Once referred to as 'the largest village in England', Wilmslow also became an industrial centre in the 18th century.

Originally known as Back Street, Maidenhead Street was a bustling centre of trade and commerce.

Montrose is the distinctive red-brick house with dormer windows at the top end of Crock Lane (centre). Holy Trinity Parish Church is visible below it (left of centre).

Note the bonded warehouse to the left of centre. An indication of the kind of cargoes passing through the Port is gained from noting the wharf-side businesses.

The clock above the Market Hall (centre) was a favourite rendezvous point for many courting couples on their way to the theatre and cinemas.

Bradpole is Bridport's northern parish and suburb, and here we are looking along Middle Street towards the 1863-built spire of Holy Trinity Church (skyline, left of centre).

Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

In 1955, of course, the A3 still passed through the centre, but nowadays the traffic is still heavy, despite the by-pass.

Moving away from the seaside, via Southend High Street, the Civic Centre is to be found in Victoria Avenue.Where once Prittlewell Church dominated the skyline now this massive Civic Centre building

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

We are looking north-westwards from above Lower Yondover Farm to the 1839-built Congregational chapel (centre left) at the crossroads near Laurel Farm.

The garage in the centre of the photograph has been demolished to make way for a new post office and convenience store, but the building in the foreground, the Cosey Social Club, still remains

Transformation into the Centre for the Visual Arts proved short-lived - its closing recriminations equal to that of its opening fanfare.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

Erected in 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria's first fifty years on the throne, the Jubilee Clock (centre) was provided with fresh flags a decade later, as the Empire celebrated the longest reign on record

This is the junction in the centre of the village. On the corner are No 2 Back Street and 20 Market Street (centre) whre W J Perry offers gifts and cream teas.

You would take your life in your hands if you tried to take this view looking south up the A650 Bradford-Skipton road in the centre of the Airedale town of Bingley today.

The Hean Castle Hotel (centre) stands on the corner of Cambrian Terrace and Wogan Terrace. On the right is the Barbecue restaurant, originally Bonville's Court Colliery Office.

The Hean Castle Hotel (centre) stands on the corner of Cambrian Terrace and Wogan Terrace. On the right is the Barbecue restaurant, originally Bonville's Court Colliery Office.

It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has

Billingham Town Centre was developed in the 1950s and 1960s, paid for largely by the local rates from the massive ICI factory in the neighbourhood, which employed almost 20,000 people at that time.

Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

From the slopes of Quarry Hill, above Park Farm (centre), we look south-westwards to Golden Cap (left of centre) and Langdon Hill.

We are looking northwards from below Priory Corner, across urban Portland from Killicks Hill and the school at Clovens Road above Chesil Cove (bottom left), to Chiswell, Fortuneswell (centre) and Castletown