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Caption For Langport, Bow Street C1955

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

Caption For Worksop, Victoria Square C1955

From Bridge Street we head north towards Victoria Square over the Chesterfield Canal, whose bridge parapets are in the foreground.

Caption For Balderstone, St Leonard's Church C1955

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Caption For Horncastle, Bull Ring C1965

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

Caption For Egham, The King's Head C1950

Unlike Staines on the north bank, the river plays no part in Egham's townscape.

Caption For Bangor, Grand Hotel From The Old Pier 1897

The Stag's Head ranked as a public house, but took visitors.

Caption For Horncastle, Bull Ring C1965

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

Caption For Abingdon, View From The Elms 1890

We are now on the Oxfordshire bank.

Caption For Broughton, High Street 1966

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Caption For Chippenham, The Weir C1960

Running across the middle of the picture is the weir, which maintained the head of water; it has now been removed during the re-management of the Avon.

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Caption For Wells, High Street C1960

Beside Liptons, the Pearl Assurance sign hides that of the Kings Head.

Caption For Woking, Old Bank 1901

Buildings such as Woking's fine, if somewhat dull, Old Bank had no place in the exciting, post-war redeveloped Woking.

Caption For Kings Lynn, South Gates 1891

The plank serving as a gangway to the vessel from the bank had, until comparatively recent legislation, been the cause of many an accident as crew returned to their various ships after

Caption For Waldringfield, The River C1955

The stretch of river beyond the mud bank leads to Stanner Point, also in Sutton.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

Lloyds Bank had succeeded the Northamptonshire Banking Company, which had opened in 1876 in temporary offices in the Market Place.

Caption For Chester, Eastgate Street C1929

The classical building on the left dates from 1860 and was where the Westminster Bank had its Chester branch.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

Lloyds Bank had succeeded the Northamptonshire Banking Company, which had opened in 1876 in temporary offices in the Market Place.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1965

The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.