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The airfield was an important centre during the war, and was in use until the mid 1990s.

Outside Prospect Cottage a young girl is caught mid-skip (centre right).

In 1896, at the centre of the crossroads, an ornate stone fountain was erected to the memory of Mr George Brampston Houblon-Archer (alias Brigadier Eyre) of Great Hallingbury as a gift from Ezra and Eliza

The town achieved some status as a holiday resort, particularly as a touring centre and as a base for leisure yachting.

Is the military jeep (centre) waiting for the horse and tumbrel to move?

The ship in the centre is the 'Canford', registered in London, with a Bremen ship in the right-hand corner.

The large building in the centre is one of the twin ordnance stores (1753-54) built either side of the magazine.

The white building (centre right) is Alfred Olby, a builders' merchant's.

On the edge of Romney Marsh, this village, with its broad street, was once a flourishing seaport and shipbuilding centre; it was captured by the Danes with a fleet of 250 ships in the 9th century.

No 1 on the right, a good 18th-century stone front, is now a Centre for Industrial Studies.

Note the name 'Corrigan' on the building in the centre: this family have operated side-shows and amusements in this area for decades, and are active to this day.

On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings

The Channel, the main access to the Market Place before the formation of King Street, is in the centre, continuing up towards the top left as Frenchgate, past St Mary's parish church.

Behind the church, hidden in the trees, is Plympton sta- tion, which closed in 1959, and in the centre of the picture is the old St Mary's Church of England School.

At its height in the 19th and early 20th century, Halifax was the greatest of the textile towns of West Yorkshire, a centre for woollen manufacture and clothing, larger even than Leeds or Bradford.

The landlord of the Swan Inn - the pub sign is in the centre of the photograph - was a Mr Beaney in 1908.

The Ouse River Hotel (centre right) was run by Arthur Rolph.

The station entrance sign can be glimpsed behind Hill's footwear store (centre).

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.

The coastal village of Keyhaven was at the centre of a controversial debate before the First World War, when plans were drawn up to create a tunnel between here and the Isle of Wight.

Bilsdale Hall is hidden behind the trees (centre).

In 1987, despite vigorous opposition, the gates were moved a few hundred yards to the left to make way for the access road to the new Ken Marriott Sports Centre.

The arched entrance to The White Hart (centre) reminds us that this inn, along with others in the town such as The Berkeley Arms, rang to the clatter of hooves in the days of horse- drawn coaches.

When it was completed in the 1960s, the uncompromisingly modern abbey was at the centre of controversy: it was hailed by some as a fine example of functional architecture, and criticised