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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 Atheneum (left of centre) was built in 1872 as a private house for William Thorne. He died shortly after it was finished and William Rock bought it in 1888 to give to the town.

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

The library is housed on the first floor of the new centre, leaving the ground floor for retailers.

Many of the buildings on the right hand side of Frenchgate were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Arndale Centre.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion (on the right), and the Brown Cow.

Note the gas street lamps, and the delivery wagon outside the hotel in the centre of the picture.

The scene has been obliterated by time - the railway shut down in 1965, and the A494 has been rebuilt through the centre of the picture.

By the banks of the graceful River Wensum is the 15th-century gateway to the city's diminutive canal, which penetrates its way to the margins of the cathedral.

Bembridge, the easternmost settlement on the Isle of Wight, became popular in late-Victorian times as a centre for golf, being the headquarters of the Isle of Wight Golf Club.

Taken from Station Approach, looking towards the village centre, this view is much the same today.

The village is famous for being the centre of the worsted cloth trade. The manufacture of this material started in the 13th century and finished 600 years later.

It was known as Horeham Road until World War Two, and is now known for the Merrydown cider plant, which was founded in 1946 and is now the dominant presence of the village centre.

The infants' school, built in 1881, forms a village centre with the church and The Crown Inn.

Our tour of Reading town centre starts at the railway sta- tion, built in 1840 and remodelled in the 1860s.

Palmer Park was laid out on land bought for the town by George Palmer in the 1880s, and his statue, formerly in the town centre, is now in the park.

The town's Market Place is predominantly Victorian and is the second 'centre' of the lovely old town—the High Street is the first.

The area serves as the main entrance to the Crown Shopping Centre - this is so-called because there was once a pub here called the Crown.

We can see it in this photograph, down near the high wall, centre right. He started by selling potatoes and milk, but he soon widened his range. He moved to new premises in 1972.

Lansdowne Terrace, a long Italianate terrace facing the Wish Tower, was built in the 1860s with its centre spanned by a wide triangular pediment; it was soon mostly colonised by the Lansdowne Private

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

From 1938 to 1966 Market Gate roundabout, seen in the foreground, attempted to speed the flow of traffic on the A49 and A57 routes through the town centre.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

Although Ilfracombe is essentially a Victorian town, the elegant terraced houses of Montpellier Place (upper, left of centre) were built in the early 1830s.