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Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855. A little way beyond, set back from the road, is the Brown Cow.

The photographer walked away from the river bridge up Hart Street towards the Town Hall in Market Place and turned back by the Bell Street junction to take this view towards the church with its dominating

Back at the river, this view shows the crowds watching the Procession of College Boats, held every year on 4 June to commemorate George III's birthday.

In this view, the photographer looks south-east back past the corner of High Street to St John's Street and St John's 15th-century west tower. To the left is St Mary's Church spire.

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

The Priory stands on the banks of the River Hiz (from which the town of Hitchin gets its name), and dates back to the time of King Edward II.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Back in the village centre, things are less coherent. The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

From Southwell the tour heads north-east back to the River Trent north of Newark and on to Sutton-on-Trent.

The Westminster Bank and the Dixon Arms were both there to serve the farmers who came to the market.

Leaving the path we can descend to the foot of the cliffs to this weir, and leaving the woods, walk back to the village along the river bank.

The weekly market which dates back centuries is held every Thursday.

On the extreme left is Lloyds Bank, whilst next door is the Stand Up Inn, so called because of the lack of seating - this ensured that any lunchtime customers were not late back to their

But the history of Gatesbury goes back further, for Braughing was a Roman industrial centre for the manufacture of pottery. Examples can be found all over Roman Britain.

The Masons Arms (beyond), with its own stables, which stood opposite the junction with Newport Street, had parts of the building dating back to the late 17th century.

The square tower of St Mary's can be seen peeping out at the centre back of the picture.

Ye Olde Tobacco Shoppe (left) was the home of blacksmith Samuel Govier, who provided the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler with a back room for his studio.

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.

This is not actually a Roman bank, but one constructed in Saxon times to protect the villages in the fens from flooding.

In 1737 a Stafford mercer, John Stevenson, started a bank, one of the earliest outside London.

The building on the corner with the clock showing 2.20 (right) is Williams Deacon's Bank.

At the other end of Grove Street, Bank Square took its name from the Union Bank of Manchester, with its fine clock and cupola.

Lloyds Bank on the left has moved, and the National Provincial Bank further up on the left is now Barclays Bank, which has been altered extensively. Note also the war memorial, centre left.

Taken from the bridge, this view looks along a busy Embankment to Embankment Gardens in the distance with its tree-lined river bank.