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Note the RAC approved sign in the centre of the photograph.

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

But coal was still king when this photograph was taken of the High Street, and the post office, on the left, was a centre of village activity.

This photograph clearly shows the pleasing symmetry and scale of the sensitive development carried out by the Onyx Property Investment Company at the centre of the village over the preceding decades.

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.

After a period of disuse and neglect it was given new sails in 1994, and now provides an interesting centre for the area's many visitors.

In the centre we can see the chimney-stack of Spencers Brewery, which was later taken over by Ushers.

Named for the mulberry tree that grew in the garden, this 18th-century Kentish hall house in the High Street was once at the centre of Snodland, where the market cross stood outside The Red Lion inn opposite

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

A fascinating early photograph which shows the crags below Hay Top in Monsal Dale, and beyond them the freshly-excavated limestone scree (centre) of the embankment which was to take the Midland line

Now the centre of a hectic one-way traffic system, Grasmere's parish church of St Oswald is perhaps best known for being the last resting place of the poet William Wordsworth, who is buried there alongside

It has a thriving local economy, and the modern Elgin Mall shopping centre and new housing estates have grown up in recent decades.

The church of St John, centre left, is Norman in origin, but has a later octagonal tower and pyramidal roof. G E Street restored the church in 1860-61.

The centre was heavily bombed during World War II, and a new shopping area was built at Broadmead, beyond the tower.

The house on the corner of Chapel Street (centre) now has a porch in the second bay. Still's stores (right) later became Simpson's antique shop, and since 1990 it has been a private house.

The arms of Charles II are in the centre of four elaborate oriel windows, with pargetting representing four continents.

The white painted steps, centre left, are the Mayflower Steps, scene of the Pilgrim Fathers' departure for the New World in 1620.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

What was Broadwaters Lane led from the town centre as a continuation of the Horse Fair to meet the main road, where it became Chester Road.

On the right the bay is dominated by the Grand Hotel (1867), designed by Cuthbert Brodrick from Leeds, and in the centre is Sir Joseph Paxton's splendid Spa Hall and Theatre (1880).

At the heart of Southampton lies the Civic Centre, with its council offices, law courts and art gallery.The building dates back to the 1930s; soaring above it is the distinctive 182-ft high tower

The building in the centre, on the far corner of Haymarket, still stands.

The monument stands in the centre of an area known as the Sanctuary by the west door of the abbey and on the site of the abbey gateway.

A pavilion and winter garden was added to the pier's centre in 1910. The theatre was dismantled in 1986, but was not replaced as had been planned.