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This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch and

A local legend says that the church was to have been built on the banks of the River Roch, but every night the materials were mysteriously shifted to the top of a nearby hill by 'goblin builders'.

It was (and is) also used for leisure pursuits: people hired boats to row on the canal, and fishermen cast from the banks.

When in 1817 the bridge opened, and was named in honour of the Battle of Waterloo victory two years earlier, the Thames flowed under this first arch on the northern bank.

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

The rock formation on the opposite bank of the river is a soft sandstone into which caves were cut long ago; it was once used as a hermitage.

The imposing building in the left foreground is home to Lloyd's Bank; it replaced the town's Assembly Rooms in 1900.

All is peace and quiet on the banks of the Severn.

Lloyds Bank, just visible on the left, faces a parade of different shops, and the size of Paige's department store at the corner of Vaughan Street indicates that new sources of wealth had been tapped.

The offices of the former National Provincial Bank - now NatWest - stand imposingly on the right.

The Midland Bank on the right is now the Halifax.

Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library.

The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School.

Opposite is Woolworths, and then come the District Bank, T H Deville & Sons, butchers, and Dorothy Perkins, ladies' outfitters.

Although the infrastructure is essentially unchanged, much tidying up of both bank and water has taken place in recent years.

Today, the whole area is unrecognizable, some of the creek has been filled in, the ramshackle huts demolished, and the banks are the home of leisure boat builders.

Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some

The sign of the popular White Lion Hotel is just visible in the centre of this photograph and Barclays Bank (now Ladbrokes) is on the far left.

A line of mainly 18th- and 19th-century cottages line the banks of the mighty River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, a small settlement to the south of Darlington and very close to the borders of County Durham.

This statue of Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) stands outside the Bank of Ireland (formerly the Parliament House) and shows the great orator in the act of speaking.

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave Road over his drive to the river bank

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

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.