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Now known as Crown Square, this busy junction at the centre of Matlock has always been the hub of the town.

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.

By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development. Reckitts Blue—advertised on the fence—was a well-known bleaching agent of the time.

The grid pattern of the streets in the centre of Wells strongly suggests that the town was a planned one, probably by the abbey of Ramsey (in Lincolnshire) which owned it some 700 years ago.

The Bugle Inn 1923 Yarmouth is an excellent centre for exploring the western half of the Isle of Wight, with Totland and Alum Bays and the Needles being not far away.

Malton stands at the junction of many roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

The monument, topped by a finial (right), marks the centre, and records the death in 1729 of William Sparrow, the creator of the maze.

The motor cycle with sidecar (centre) is now a rare sight.

The left hand side of the street, in contrast, has been redeveloped as part of the Old George Mall shopping centre.

The church is away from the present centre of the village and relates more to Latimer Park.

At the time when this picture was taken, horses and carts like that in the centre of the photograph were still a common sight outside the Bay Hotel, overlooking the sea front.

Its more salubrious site was, and remains, the one pictured here on Milford Hill, just east of the city centre beyond the ring road.

The site is now merely a car park for the somewhat less distinguished Regis Centre. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

The wheeled cart in the centre of the picture bears the crest of the Royal Mail.

An ancient market town, Ormskirk was an important centre for the linen trade during the 16th century, whilst in the late 18th and early 19th centuries there were silk mills in the area.

The stream meanders through the centre of the village, and local children play pooh sticks and just watch the stream.

From here they penetrated far inland on destructive forays. More recently, Appledore became a wealthy village with its own harbour.

In the 18th century, Prestatyn was a centre for the lead-mining districts of north-east Wales.

It is an old centre with a 15th-century church, which has many fine treasures. Weatherboarded cottages surround the tree-lined green.

It is one of the oldest religious sites in the country, and was once the centre of pagan worship in the north of England, with a temple dedicated to the god Woden.

In the distance can be seen a small shopping centre with a post office at the point where Spring Lane branches off from Riverside.

An ice-cream tricycle stands outside Row End (centre). The weather-boarded hut has had a variety of uses as a sweet, craft and gift shop.

The monument in the centre was modelled on the original Eleanor Cross, which was erected by King Edward I - he twice visited Birkenhead Priory.

Shipton Hill is prominent on the distant skyline (centre). Manor Farm, Barr Lane and the Anchor Inn are partly hidden by trees in the middle distance (left).