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One in desperation has left his gear on the bank and has paddled into the river to assist the other hopefuls in an attempt to locate some fish.

Today it houses the Yorkshire Bank and Provident Personal Credit.

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.

By 1440 the town was trading in dairy produce, wine, fish, garlic, silk, iron, coal, copper and lead.

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

Until Barclays Bank was built in 1904, the Methodist church had the only public clock in the village.

Today it houses the Yorkshire Bank and Provident Personal Credit.

The shop window at No 26, the draper Henry Octavius Bickley (right), contains clothing and parasols.

Bevere Island is the second largest of all the natural islets in the River Severn and used to be a refuge for the citizens.

At this date Queen Victoria's statue can still be seen (just visible, centre left); and between the bank and the Queen's Hotel the narrow gabled building with the big arched window is the

Walmersley was a township within Bury on the east bank of the Irwell.

Bishop's Waltham is still remembered for having the only privately owned bank in the country, before it was sold to Barclays in the early 1950s.

North Street joins High Street by Lloyds Bank, and it is down here on the left that we find the last Daventry Grammar School building.

Most of the buildings are still recognisable, but only Lloyds Bank, now Lloyds TSB, is still trading.

The walls have gone, and cobbles found in the rear garden have been laid at the front.

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

The dawning of the railway age helped in no small way to put Burgess Hill on the map, and the Railway Hotel can be seen on the right in this picture.

Bishop's Waltham is still remembered for having the only privately owned bank in the country, before it was sold to Barclays in the early 1950s.

The Capital and Counties Bank on the right of the photograph bears the date of 1834 which, however, refers to the founding of the bank rather than the date of the building which occurred

The Crown Hotel, by now owned by Ingram Richards, was built in 1820 and was one of the New Inn's biggest rivals in the coaching trade.

The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.

The London & Provincial Bank established itself c1883, relocating to a vacant school building on the corner of Stanwell Road c1886.

Martin`s Bank (centre left), on the left of Yorkshire Street, has lost its turret and other roof top features during modernisation and the Midland Bank has been cleaned.

The Midland Bank is prominent on the left, facing the National Westminster and Barclays, which was a few steps from Lloyds' palatial building opposite the Royal Hotel.