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On the far side there is a packed industrial waterside where now the South Bank Centre and the Royal National Theatre stand.

The building in the centre of the picture, however, claims to be even older -it has the date of 1510 proudly displayed above the front door.

This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

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

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

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

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.

Pastor W T Richards founded his church in 1943 in a Scout hut, and the present brick building in Pitts Road, now renamed as Slough Christian Centre, was built in 1964.

Blue carts and yellow omnibuses, varnished carriages and brown vans, pale loads of yellow straw ... this is the vortex and whirlpool, the centre of human life today on the earth.'

Note the gutter in the centre of the narrow roadway. Varco the watchmaker's shop is on the right, while J M Williams' store advertises the products of the Pure Soda Water Co.

From the junction with Silver Street and Gold Street you can spot the distinctive tall tower of a former boys school, now an educational centre.

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

The Blenheim Hotel, shown in the centre, is now converted to holiday flats: a sign of the times.

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.

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.

This is the southern or `t`Cheshire side` of the lake, with the roof of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Hotel, which opened on 17 December 1875, just visible in the centre.

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.

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.