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The village is famous for being the centre of the worsted cloth trade.

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.

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.

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints.

The town was a centre for brewing, malting, tanning and mining as well as staging Monday, Thursday and Saturday markets.

This view of the High Street has changed out of all recognition - though the 15th-century White Horse, a famous coaching inn in the centre of the picture, still stands, and the view is still terminated

The hotel has now become a civic centre and tall stands for spectators surround the stadium's floodlights.

The strange monolith seen through the trilithon in the centre of the photograph bears no resemblance to any Neolithic monument, however.

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.

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

Moulton is only a stone's throw from the centre of Northampton; when the town thrived on shoe manufacture, many men and women walked from this village to work in the shoe factories.

Raunds used to be a bustling manufacturing centre for shoes, but most of the factories have now gone.

A penny-farthing can be seen leaning against the front of the cycle stores in the centre of Burley, which John Wise described in 1863 as 'one of the most primitive of (New) Forest hamlets'.

The Old Mill C1955 The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

The lovely Georgian rectory is seen in the centre of the view, and on the verge on the right we see, again, milk churns waiting for collection, this time on a wheeled trolly.

Margam, with its abbey, was a centre of Christian worship for over 1,000 years from the time when monks of the Celtic church established a monastery here.

Victorian ladies stroll on the promenade—note the lady pushing a pram in the centre—and holiday makers enjoy themselves on the beach.