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across to St Mary's Church clearly shows a variety of architectural styles, including the unusual curved rear of the Town Hall on the left, the ornate gabled roof the Wiltshire Friendly Society building (centre

This is the village centre, and it holds very special memories for the author.

Whether you tried the cockles, crabs, mussels, prawns, shrimps or whelks at the Oyster Bar (centre left) before or after you had the ride was entirely up to you.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

The building glimpsed to the left of centre with the white pediment and the tower is the old fire station built in 1922; the tower is its practice fire- fighting tower surmounted by a siren

John rebuilt it before his death in 1624, at the age of eighty, and his magnificent tomb is inside, although the bodies of Sir John and his wife were later transferred to Rainham because of water penetration

The roof of the station no longer bears the white lettering, and the building is almost a mile from the town centre itself.

Almost hidden in the centre background is one of the tugs belonging to Lambton Collieries and identified by its funnel colours of black with three red horizontal stripes.

In the distance is the town centre church of St Alban and St Michael, 1933, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a pleasing design with its lantern tower and simple Gothic detailing.

This is the village centre, and it holds very special memories for the author.

Telegraph poles carry the wires from Cobb hamlet to the town, which begins at the Bay Private Hotel (centre).

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Rising in the centre, the clock tower of the Town Hall of 1870 is a highly visible symbol of civic pride.

A motor car can be seen in the centre of the picture, driven by a uniformed chauffeur.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

Note also the roofline, with chimneys and upper rooms above the shops in the centre.

The building in the centre of the picture with the bellcote is The Chantry; it is thought to have been founded by Robert of Morpeth around 1296.

The house has gone for road 'improvement', and the printing works for the 1990s Wynn-Jones Centre, a collection of tyre-fitters and other industrial brick sheds.

Indeed, it is the National Sports Centre with many new specialised buildings, sports pitches, etc.

This shopping complex with its sweeping lines still contains large national shops, and seems unthreatened by the new Ridings Centre, off to the left down Southgate.

The two chapels, Anglican and Nonconformist, are linked by an archway, and stand in the centre of the cemetery.

This is Portland's rugged eastern seaboard, south-westwards from Gilbert Castle and Castle Hayes (foreground) to medieval Rufus Castle and Gallops Weare (centre); God Nor is the headland above Freshwater

As we come away rfom the main shopping centre, the buildings become less imposing and only two stories in height; but still the stone facades prevail.

The one on the right, North Farm House, has had its farm buildings converted into the Dukeries Antiques Centre.