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This photograph was taken along Roman Bank - which is not Roman at all – and the scene is totally different today.

Next to Lloyds Bank, W H Smith has long since given way to C & M DIY. There was talk in 2001 of upgrading the market street for the comfort of the silent majority, the town's pedestrians.

In the distance is Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, and the entrance to Loch Long which is backed by the Cowal hills.

Melcombe Bingham's manor house dates back to the time of the Plantagenet kings, though much of the present building is Tudor.

Cadhay Bridge dates back to the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Newmarket connection with racing dates back to the time of Charles II, although the sport's main boost came during the reign of Victoria, promoted by her son, the Prince of Wales.

An obliging servant stepped into the water offering to piggy-back the king across - hence Kingsbridge.

The wall on the left now has two boards bearing the names of all the Mayors of Totnes back to 1359.

There are records of settlements here dating back to the Roman occupation. This mill became a carpet factory in the 20th century.

Boot and shoe repairs are undertaken in these premises in one of the back yards in the cramped village of Mousehole. Perhaps it is Mr Jeffery himself who is posing at the steps in the foreground.

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

It dates back to 1030, but the current building dates from a thorough restoration between 1871 and 1878.

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the Cherwell, Oxford gives the impression of sitting on an island.

In 1909 this property was bought and later demolished by the London City and Midland Bank.

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

They were converted into an hotel, as seen in this view, but shortly afterwards the building was reconverted back to twenty-nine flats.

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

It serves the large and ornate All Saints' church, which is ashlar-faced and dates back to two periods – late 13th century and 1360-70.

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

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.

The advent of popular motoring brought it back to life as a new generation of tourists discovered the nearby beach.

There is the much-restored Holt Castle and a church dating back to the 14th century to see.

Here we see the carriages of the wealthy assembled and waiting to take their clients back to their hotels and villas.