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This view, dating from 1904, looks eastwards from the north bank and duplicates picture 43865.
There were a whole range of shops along the Broadway, ranging from a chemist's, a sweet shop, a gentlemen's outfitter's, a garage, a bank and the gas showroom, but competition was to follow from
This postcard shows the parish church of St Martin in the centre, and clockwise from the top left, the village centre; the `Roman` Baths in the Nook; Lover`s Leap; and the view down from the Bank.
Today it is a pleasing old market town on the banks of the River Stour.
In Victorian times Hythe was a mere village on the banks of Southampton Water, but it increased in size during the 20th century largely owing to the availability of employment at the nearby oil refinery
The Buckland Drives, following the rim of the flatter land high up on the eastern bank of the Dart, were very popular during the 19th century.
On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.
At 6.00pm on August Bank Holiday Monday 1908, Romilly Park Bowling Club's green opened for play.
This is a useful spot in the street: the Post Office is on the left, the Trustee Savings Bank is adjacent to the bus, and the shiny new frontage of the Co-op is second on the right.
The West Riding Union Bank on the left (later Barclays) replaced the Royal Hotel.
Also buried here is the eccentric banking millionaire Jemmy Wood.
In this picture, the impressive County Hotel and Barclays Bank (built originally as a wine and spirit warehouse) can be seen on the corner, with the clock tower and the old Infirmary beyond.
The round house on the north bank of the river was a popular bathing spot.
The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell.
The premises of Barclays Bank can be seen on the right, next door to Morris Garages.
The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.
By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks
Apart from a sign of the times - the bank building on the left has given way to an amusement arcade - little has physically changed.
This photograph of The Green shows the mock-Gothic Martin's Bank in the centre of the town.
The Portland stone bridge, built in 1813, carries the main road from Poole to Wimborne on the far bank of the River Stour.
