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At Parkmill we can see the earth bank or pale, with its wall and inside ditch, which marks the boundary of the deer park known as Park le Breos. The medieval deer-park was divided into three farms.

On the right are the National Provincial bank, the Alliance, and the mock-Tudor front of Henley's children's shop, which lost a gable width in 1891 when the Alliance was built.

Nowadays the diving tower has gone, fishermen line the banks, and there are notices along the edge of the lake warning of the dangers of deep water!

This view is taken from the south bank of the Culham Cut, also seen in view A15032, looking northwards to the church, an uninteresting one mostly rebuilt in 1852, with the chancel following

On the north side of the High Street, behind the Mini Traveller stands the Westminster Bank, previously Ellwoods; next door is R & O Hall, newsagents, who later became Buxton`s paper shop and is now

Stocks of quarry stone share the central shore with offices for the Wilts and Dorset Bank (centre), built by George Siley, though the bankers never moved into their new building.

The drinking fountain with its cherub ornament was erected in 1884; Barclay's Bank on the right was designed by Gilbert Scott, and dates from 1897.

This view and 27204, pages 72-73 are well away from the town; the banks are consequently more thinly populated and the boats, punts and skiffs far fewer than one might expect.

The Westminster Bank (third building in from either side of the picture) seems busy enough, judging by the cars parked outside.

By the banks of the Dee. Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.

A man sits on the bank with his granddaughter enjoying the tranquillity.

The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond

The south bank always remained less formal than the north; it is a series of islands separated from the 'mainland' by a back river, which in its turn is separated by weirs from the north river.

The hatted ladies are leaving the Suspension Bridge on the north bank, the Embankment Gardens side: casual wear in the 1920s was somewhat more formal than today.

We can make out the Hale shoreline over on the far bank.

The gabled HSBC next door began as the London and Provincial Bank in 1908. The shop with awnings was Alex Martin's, a draper's.

Mobile homes between River Way and Bridge Road, on the west bank of the River Char, have also been targeted by nature, notably in a flash flood in the 1970s.

It had negotiated a tidal river, deep valleys and cut through great banks of rock rising over 900ft to cross Shap Fell. Here the viaduct carries it at a height of 100ft.

Opposite is the Royal Oak Hotel (centre), and the Wilts and Dorset Bank (far right) had yet to be absorbed into Lloyds.

The popular Complete Angler Hotel lies on the Berkshire bank and looks out across the Thames to Marlow.

The terrace at the left survives but on the right all beyond the 1880s bank (now Atkinson and Keene estate agents) has been demolished, as far along as the parapeted building.

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

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

The Midland Bank on the corner of Caulfield Road (right) is one of their 1920s Classical-style single-storey buildings that add quality to many High Streets.