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The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

Here is a general view of the old centre of Daventry. Comparing this with the earlier pictures, the memorial has gained a chequered kerbstone and a rash of road signs.

Over hundreds of years, the castle was expanded until in 1832 it became the official residence of the bishop and administrative centre for the diocese.

It grew into a centre for brewing, cotton manufacturing, boat building and tanning, and was once known as 'the Glasgow of the South'.

Petersfield now has both open-air and enclosed swimming pools, together with a sports centre which is named after the town's annual Taro Fair.

The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).

Here, at the centre of what is still one of Northamptonshire's largest estates, a vast Elizabethan mansion replaces a ruined castle.

Skelton Lane leads down through the commercial centre of Brotton.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Today Trentham Hall is a leading conference, exhibition, function and leisure centre.

Today Trentham Hall is a leading conference, exhibition, function and leisure centre.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Back in the village centre, things are less coherent. The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

Out of view to the right is the very large Main Square Shopping Centre with its Noddy in Toyland- style porticoes.

Frith's photographer is looking from the middle of the green towards Wharf Road, with the through road crossing the centre of the view.

This segment included Stanwell, whose village centre has quite a few good buildings and a church with a strikingly good tower.

Back in 1851 Sheffield was one of the towns at the centre of a price-cutting war between the Midland and the Great Northern railway companies for the lucrative passenger traffic associated with the Great

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

The two old houses in the centre show how piecemeal were the alterations carried out by various owners down the centuries: below each has a wall of stone rubble, and above at least two courses of brick

To the far left is the old grammar school in Croston Road erected in 1756, which became an arts centre.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

Centre, on the horizon, is All Hallows Church, and near it is Hart House. An oak sign, erected in 1937, tells us that the street they stand on is part of Harthill Walk, mentioned in Scott's Ivanhoe.

In the centre is the old lifeboat house with its slipway, built in 1903. A lifeboat station was established at Polkerris in 1859, when the first boat was given by the Rashleighs of Menabilly.