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As Granby Street sweeps right towards the Clock Tower, the photograph clearly illustrates the unspectacular variety of buildings to be seen in the city centre.

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

In the centre is a terrace called Cornforth Hill.

The northern end of the Post Office (just visible down Basket Street in the centre) would now be on Royal Parade outside Dingles.

This view of the cross-roads in the centre of the town shows how free from congestion the roads were at the time of this photograph, before the days of universal car ownership.

The Empire cinema (centre) is showing the film 'Tycoon.'

The Winged Spur (in the background, on the right) in the village centre is still a traditional country pub with a warm welcome for local residents and visitors.

This is the edge of the rock gardens, and we can see one of the terra-cotta vases (centre left).

Opposite is Eastgate House of 1590, now part of the Charles Dickens Centre.

On the right of the picture is the Victoria Institute, built in 1904, and still very much the centre of village social life.

This wide triangle of grass forms the centre of this straggling village, which stretches for almost four miles.

Further into the centre we see the public buildings of the village.

Sandgate Castle, built in 1573, was so altered in 1806 to make a defence against the feared invasion by Napoleon that it resembled the Martello towers built along the coast (see centre

Just before the turn of the century, Datchet suffered serious flooding when the swollen Thames caused a pond in the centre of the village to overflow.

Being within a few miles of the village, they helped Wroxham become the major centre for cruising that it is today.

Jeremiah's Tea House (centre) used to be one of the favourite places to drive out to from Cambridge in the 1960s.

The house looks much the same today, though it is now a conference centre.

Acomb was once a centre for the lead-mining industry.

There has been some upgrading and renovation in the centre of this friendly village.

White's 1860 directory listed no less than 38 fairs in the county, including Crewe, where its establishment was probably influenced by the town's extensive railway facilities, making it an ideal centre

The entrance arch, with its green gates, was demolished in the 1980s to allow access for lorries building the new leisure centre.

This view of Streatley shows the village centre.

It is situated to the south of the city centre, and was first established in 1849.

This was the period when few supermarkets existed and those that did were built in town centres, as most people relied on public transport.