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In the 19th century, banks often built very imposing buildings to reflect their status in everyday life.
In the 19th century, banks often built very imposing buildings to reflect their status in everyday life.
In the 19th century, banks often built very imposing buildings to reflect their status in everyday life.
On the left is the corner of Lloyds Bank; then comes Siddal and Kirby's shoe shop, the Wool Shop, now Nationwide with a new shop front, and the Midland Bank.
This view shows one of Salter's pleaseure steamers, the 'Henley', having just passed through Burford Bridge heading upstream towards Oxford.
On the left is the Queen's Head Hotel; beyond that is the Chesterfield & District Co-operative Society.
We are looking at West Bank and the Victoria Promenade.
The scaffolding beyond the lamppost hides Lloyds Bank, which was being extended and restored at the time this photograph was taken (there are rainwater heads dated 1921).
The view looking north from the King's Head shows the National Provincial Bank on the left (now NatWest) and, opposite, the Button Shop (now the Wimborne Pottery).
From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.
By 1906 the pier had been considerably widened and extended in length.
By 1906 the pier had been considerably widened and extended in length.
At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.
A clipper-bowed excursion steamer crowded with passengers heads along the Dee, attracting little attention from the young fishermen on the bank.
The photographer is looking east towards Poole Head, at the end of the long high cliff of Poole Bay which includes Bournemouth.
Approaching is an LCC ambulance; on the left a tram, about to go out of service, heads towards Walworth Road.
The boy on the left appears to have been diverted from what he was doing: probably he has been hailed by the two cyclists opposite Lloyd's Bank, who seem to be about to head across the road towards him
The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.
The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.
At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.
