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Tylers Green was the centre of a major medieval tile-making industry whose decorated floor tiles were used at Windsor Castle in the 14th century and for paving numerous Chiltern churches.

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

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.

A number of smaller businesses have built up around this pleasant village, some evidence of which is seen in the yard in the centre of the photograph.

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.

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.

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.

And all this within easy walking distance of the very centre of the town.

Broadway still exists, but now much wider and with a multi-storey car park on the right, while Tesco's and the Nicholson Centre shopping mall take up most of the rest on the right.

The pediments to its left were 'modernised' in the 1960s with a straight parapet, while on the right there is now an entrance to the Nicholson Centre, a modern shopping precinct on the site

The flat-roofed Foreshore Centre (left) contained a first-aid room as well as an information bureau, left luggage office and lost children's shelter.

In this view we see pargetting with birds and plants on the projecting gable, and in the centre to the left of the drain pipe there is a single leg.

Dartford is an ancient market-town which grew into a busy industrial centre on the River Darent, at the point where it was crossed by the Roman Watling Street, parts of which lie buried four feet beneath

Two heavily laden small craft are ready to set sail (centre).

In the centre, the Marine Lake links Claremont with Knightstone, while to the right, the elegance of the mid 19th-century terraces and crescents is still apparent.

However, unlike the more northerly Norfolk towns, it never grew into a major agricultural centre – the soils here are poor.

It seems as though the photographer was the centre of attention, as both ladies (left) are smiling for the camera.

The accountants Forrester Boyd & Co at 7 Corn Market next door have been replaced by Hanson's the bakers, and next door is now the Louth Vision Centre.

A new church was built in the centre of Upton village at a cost of £728, which in turn was replaced by the present St Mary's in 1868.

This view was taken north-eastwards along Marine Parade, below Langmoor Gardens (left), to the Bay Hotel, 1830-built Madeira Cottages and Cobb Gate Jetty (centre).

This part now houses the Tourist Information Centre; the ivy has been cleared to reveal the original door.

Was the Millennium Dome at Greenwich based on Kingswinford shopping centre? Perhaps we should be told!

Formerly, a railway line from the station to the slate quarries ran across by the mound (centre).