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Caption For Goodrich, Kerne Bridge C1960

The railway line was dismantled soon after this photograph was taken and you can no longer see the river as the bank is totally overgrown with trees.

Caption For Goodrich, Kerne Bridge C1960

The railway line was dismantled soon after this photograph was taken and you can no longer see the river as the bank is totally overgrown with trees.

Caption For Tadcaster, View From Bridge 1906

The Wharfe was prone to flooding, and the Victorians were forced to move a church further up the bank out of reach of the invading waters.

Caption For Dorchester, The Amphitheatre 1891

However, the amphitheatre was a converted hillfort, known as Maumbury Rings, a substantial circular bank with a pair of opposing entrances.

Caption For Coventry, High Street And Broadgate C1955

In the picture we have two buildings from the 1930s: Lloyd's Bank (1932) with its giant arch, and the National Provincial Bank with its neo-classical portico.

Caption For Grantham, Angel And Royal Hotel 1904

The buildings beyond have been somewhat mutilated now, and one has been replaced by a taller Neo-Georgian bank, now the Yorkshire Bank.

Caption For Kingston Lacy, The House 1899

Set in magnificent parkland, Kingston Lacy was built in Chilmark stone and designed by Sir Roger Pratt for the Bankes family; they owned it until 1982, when it was left to the National

Caption For Bakewell, The Square 1956

The bank is now operated by The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Caption For Rochdale, Town Hall Square 1913

The Oldham Joint Stock Bank on the right had become the London City and Midland Bank.

Caption For London, Bank Of England 1908

On the right is an entrance to Bank Station.

Caption For Reading, Market Place C1870

A former Governor of the Bank of England, he commissioned the bank's architect Sir John Soane to produce this superb monument.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1925

The businesses on the left have all gone, but Barclays Bank, the impressive building on the right, and Lloyds Bank farther up the High Street remain in the town - although Lloyds has moved

Caption For Doncaster, High Street 1895

Along here could be found the imposing edifice of the York City & County Bank, the Yorkshire Penny Bank and the 18th-century Reindeer Hotel.

Caption For Doncaster, High Street 1895

Along here could be found the imposing edifice of the York City & County Bank, the Yorkshire Penny Bank and the 18th-century Reindeer Hotel.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Regatta 1890

Here, seen from near Poplar Point on the Berkshire bank, the eights race past the houseboats which lined the opposite bank to provide elegant floating grandstands for hospitality and shelter from the rain

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1901

Between the right-hand blind and the entrance doorway was the London City and Midland Bank, forerunner of the Midland Bank, and now the police office.

Caption For Overton, Winchester Road C1950

Overton is the home of the famous paper mill that supplies paper for Bank of England notes.

Caption For Chigwell, Brook Parade C1950

It includes two banks, a newsagent's and a garage.

Caption For Plymouth, George Street 1892

That function for the modern Theatre Royal (built roughly on the site of the GWR offices) is fulfilled by The Bank, which in this picture (behind the columns) is still a bank.