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This spot has been the terminus and turning point for buses from Birmingham city centre since the very first motor buses to serve Harborne departed the city in 1903, travelling (as they still do) via Five

The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver Light Railway

In past times, the Tolsey was the centre of local administration, and taxes were paid here.

Sheep Street is an appropriate reminder that this town, which sits on a rounded tump 800 feet above sea level, was once a centre of the wool industry.

Here, looking across the valley to the northeast, we can see the 19th-century St Luke's Church; in the centre, at the bottom of the valley, is the Exmoor Forest Hotel.

The Black Boy Hotel stands splendidly in the centre, with its astonishing wealth of architectural detail.

Today the hall is a centre and retreat for missionaries from around the world.

Trading directly opposite the Town Hall was ironmonger Charles Edward Bazley (centre).

During the reign of Edward III, Flemish weavers and merchants settled in Newark, which was an export centre for the wool trade with the Low Countries.

The 17th-century Old Market Hall in the centre of the village was the first National Trust property in Derbyshire - the Trust acquired it in 1906.

The village war memorial stands at the road junction (centre left), and on the right is the entrance to The Queens Head Hotel.

Famous as a yachting centre, Hamble has long thrived on its close proximity to the river of the same name, with its shipbuilding associations, yacht clubs and marinas.

Llanidloes was one of the major centres for wool and flannel production from the late middle ages.

This fine village could support its own bank (the white-painted building in the centre) in 1960.

The former Crown Inn is at the end of the row (centre), beneath the octagonal church tower with its wooden leaded spire.

Built in the mid 1950s, it was followed into the town by the Ford Engineering Research Centre at Dunton.

He was a well-known local figure, but unfortunately that did not help him when he found himself competing with the chain-stores that followed him into the town centre.

The camera looks away from the original village centre into the alternative Ruislip of the 1930s and towards the Metropolitan line station of 1904.

The Black Bell public house lies at the centre of the village, though the roads are busier these days.

The right-hand building, an Italianate palazzo at the corner of Milsom Street, built in 1865 as a bank, is now the Bath Environmental Centre.

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

The building on the left, the Old Mill, is a house with an added balcony, while that to the right is now the well known Morris Minor Centre.

To the centre right we can see Paignton station and Brunel's parcel office.

This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.