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Before the construction of the town centre, there were few shops in the new Basildon. Initially, just two small Co-ops served the first few hundred inhabitants in the Fryerns neighbourhood.

The 19th-century parish church of St John is prominent in the centre of the picture, while the rest of the town spreads out beneath Skiddaw (right) and Dodd on the left.

A green lung in the centre of the town, the park was given to Whitby by Alderman Pannett.

There seem to have been bargeboards on the gable, centre right, but little was left of them even then.

Corporation Street was the last major roadway development in the city centre made by the corporation.

The sleepy centre of this village, with its picturesque half-timbered cottages and winding lane, was captured from a point near the ruins of the old 14th-century church, which was partly demolished by

The Village C1955 The centre of Bishop's Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this photograph shows some of the country town's striking Georgian build- ings.

The town's importance as a centre for yachting, and the close proximity of Queen Victoria's home Osborne House, made Cowes most fashionable in the 19th century.

Stacked trays and a couple of van men (centre left) suggest that Scott's bakery (no longer in operation) is making its daily delivery to the Pavilion tea rooms.

It forms an important green space in the centre of the town. Riber Castle stands on the skyline, as it does in so many views of Matlock.

The ornate corner building (centre) is in fact an Edwardian sham, a façade to hide Ushers brewery behind.

Roses twine around the doorway of the cottage on the right in this 50s photograph of Tideswell's Market Square, with the Belle Vue Hotel (now gone) in the centre background.

One piece of history remains - the old Toll Bridge House in the centre distance.

If we walk along Cluntergate towards the town centre past John Carr's birthplace in the tidy cottage built by his father in 1739, we see the Cricketers Arms pub (1898) on the left.

Mill House (centre) has been converted into holiday accomodation.

It was closed as a school in the 1970s, and is now the Wootton Bassett Civic Centre.

In front of Ogden's the jeweller's (centre left), formerly Cash Clothing, is the clock erected to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

A pony with a milk churn on a cart (centre) is turning onto Preston Street, by the shop of William Morris, fruiterer.

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.The famed Kendal bowmen at

Number 18, on the left, was refronted in the 1770s in brick with Venetian windows (with their centre part arched), and a later Greek Doric- style porch added.

In the centre of this spacious village is the War Memorial, standing on the edge of the village green. It was officially 'unveiled' in 1920.

The town centre was extended eastwards in the 1980s, and Southernhay was diverted. This stretch of the road survives as a walkway in the precinct.

Perhaps the harvesters have retreated to the Star Inn, seen in the centre of this picture, after their hard day's work.

An Austin A35 and a Morris Minor are parked outside the Devonshire Arms public house in the centre of the village.