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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

Once the centre of the Anglo-Saxon village, the Green is overlooked by houses mostly dating from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Anyone familiar with the centre of Winchester will know the station approach. One feature that sets this scene apart from that of today is the amount of advertising.

Sad to say, this centre is no more, and the pool has been filled in. However, apparently there are plans for future recreational and conservation activities on the site.

In the distance, as the town centre is approached, there is more activity and the Memorial Hall ogee turrets come into view.

To the right is the town hall of 1867, now the Guildhall Centre, while the house to its right was replaced by a library and museum in the 1950s.

The photograph looks from outside the present entrance to Hornsey Town Hall and towards the town centre soon after the completion of most of the buildings, and a decade before the influx of extensive but

Beyond in the centre of the road is the original Shambles building, an enclosed market erected in 1825.

Between them are the solid shapes of Sundial Cottage and Library Cottage, and No 11 with its gabled frontage above an arched doorway (centre right).

On the summit of Castle Crag, in the centre of the photograph, are the remains of an early British fort.

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints. The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.

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.