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Note the branch of Lloyds Bank on the left, and the Scala cinema on the right next to N Joseph, General Stores.

The parish church of All Saints stands on the banks of the River Ouse. Like a watch tower overlooking the river, the tower is embattled and has pinnacles at the corners.

We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

Springtime daffodils adorn the bank in front of the battlemented, mostly 15th-century parish church of St Cuthbert at Crayke, a lovely village overlooking the Vale of York.

On the right is Lloyd's Bank, and beyond it is the entrance to Cheap Street. The road below was frequently flooded by the River Frome.

In bygone times the hotel had a back yard in which strolling minstrels and poets would entertain.

The van on the left was ahead of its time by using the back door for the slogan: 'If it's tractors ask Reginald Tildesley'. In the background is the turreted tower of St Mary's parish church.

On the near bank, adults sit equally at ease, talking amiably to the man standing with relaxed stance alongside the yacht.

People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

Laleham's charming parish church has a tower dating back to 1732; it has been altered somewhat since this photograph was taken.

In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed

Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry. The village is set on the hilly north side of the young River Nene. Little has changed.

The odd thing is that there are no banks in the village today.

To the left of the Town Hall is the local branch of the National Provincial Bank, while to the right The Central Pharmacy is still a chemists, but under the name of Cherrington.

The school, now a museum and library, sits comfortably beneath the bank on which the parish church of St Michael, seen in the background, stands.

Pownall Bridge over the River Bollin carries the public footpath that runs from Wilmslow along the river bank to Styal.

The school, now a museum and library, sits comfortably beneath the bank on which the parish church of St Michael, seen in the background, stands.

This view was taken from the iron bridge, and shows the backs of various High Street and Moulsham Street properties. Some of them had their own landing stages.

Everything beyond the Wilts and Dorset Bank (now Lloyds) has been flattened. Otherwise, this view has all you would expect from such a vintage photograph.

Back in the Market Place, the photographer looks south down the High Street. Cook's on the corner is still a newsagent and stationer, Goodnews.

Among the tombstones is a venerable yew tree, which also dates back to the 13th century.

A major restoration project has been undertaken in recent years to bring Highcliffe House back to its former glory. The house was built in the 1830s during the reign of William IV.

There are several privies half-way up the back gardens (left).