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To the left the Shopping Centre occupied the Victoria Palace Theatre; this was mainly used as a cinema, and by the date of this photograph had been stripped of its ornate stucco facings.

It is an evangelical church, and the present clergy are noted for taking their message out into the nearby shopping centre.

The Town Hall tower (centre right), designed by T M Lockwood and E A Landsdowne, was opened in 1885.

The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark

In the centre there was once a circular Market Hall, where farmers and their wives gathered to buy and sell local produce.

Coal was imported down to the mid 20th century – we can see a small Dutch coaster discharging her cargo, with coal heaped on the quayside (centre).

Here we see an attractive village centre group and a splendid single-decker bus.

His brother, Francis Smith, designed the stable block (centre left) in 1737.

The gateway in the stone wall (centre left) is now a garage door.

The Wellington column can be seen in the centre of the picture.

We are now in the centre of Eastleigh; in fact, we are looking from the station along Leigh Road, originally a farm track but steadily improved and extended as the town grew.

The modern town centre is well to the west around Corporation Street and the Market Square.

On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

The triangular-topped frontage right of centre is James Duckworth`s grocer's shop.

The village is certainly on a hill, and at the foot of the hill is a small vineyard, as well as a thriving family-owned garden centre.

Many of the shops on the left remain, whilst most of those on the right were demolished in the early 1970s for the building of the Trident Shopping Centre.

The greenhouse behind the wall (centre foreground) was owned by the Old Bell; it was demolished in 1977 to enable the Queen`s Jubilee Garden to be created, which was opened in 1978.

A recent use as an arts centre has collapsed, and it remains boarded up (2004).

A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

A mile and a half east of the European School complex is the Culham Science Centre, where the Joint European Torus (JET) project is based.

Here we see an attractive village centre group and a splendid single-decker bus.

Situated at the head of the valley of the East Allen, Allenheads was an important centre for the lead-mining industry from the late 18th to the mid 19th century; the mines here produced around 14 per