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Barclays Bank on the extreme right was built in the early 19th century. It is now owned by Dewhurst the butcher, and apart from a rather more modern frontage, survives intact.

A large number of religious houses exist, and there was an Augustinian priory here as far back as 1061. The half-timbered jettied building has a steep roof of cascading pantiles.

Parts of the hotel date back to 1640, and would have been known to the famous and infamous, royalty and riff-raff, in the heady days of Bibury Races, frequented in their day by Charles II and Nell

Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall.The Sudell family can be traced back

The Ford Thames van bears a DD Gloucestershire registration; behind it we can just see the back of the latest Thames van which superseded it.

The TV series All Creatures Great and Small was filmed here, which put the village back on the tourist trail in the 1970s.

In nearby Newburgh Priory possibly lie the headless remains of Oliver Cromwell - his daughter is reputed to have brought the body back from Tyburn after the hanging of his corpse in 1660, following the

Sited on the Haywards Road junction, the white building on the extreme right is Lloyds Bank; this building was later demolished, but Lloyds are still on the same site.

Jane Austen writes in 'Persuasion': 'Charmouth with its high ground and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs where fragments of low rock

Murkett Brothers car showrooms on the opposite bank in the 1955 picture indicate an unlikely egalitarianism in the juxtaposition of window signs for both Rolls Royce and a caravan agency.

There exists a rather persistent but erroneous myth among the locals of Barrow-in-Furness that the town hall was built back to front.

The photograph shows the Provincial Bank, which had in fact been in 'Hercules Place', now absorbed. Its railings and shrubs helped to put it in line with the new Avenue, and it became number 2.

It is difficult to imagine a devastated village when we look back at this tranquil High Street.

He was convicted and was 'whipped until his back was bloody' in Angel Inn Yard, Hertford.

The Bell and Crown (left) is a very old inn dating back to 1675, and it stands on the old coaching road from London to Barnstaple.

On the right is a branch of the London and County Bank, with Dorset's shop next door exhibiting a gleaming display of light fittings.

Visit the museum and step back in time among the mahogany counters, the coloured bottles and rows of medicines.

It rarely looks back to the past and to the time when, for example, Daniel Clerk the grave digger kept a large basket of human bones in his kitchen, claiming that he knew whose remains each was.

That evening Crabb went to Havant and caught a train back to Portsmouth. A frogman was seen entering the sea at the mouth of Portsmouth harbour.

Barclays Bank beyond has gone and been replaced by Goodwins hardware store. Further on was Hall's men's wear shop, but it too is no more.

This is a good close-up view of the main exhibition building that backed onto Talbot Road, which got its name when Sir Humphry Trafford married Lady Annette Talbot in 1823.

Barclays Bank beyond has gone and been replaced by Goodwins hardware store. Further on was Hall's men's wear shop, but it too is no more.

This approach to the city is picturesque, with the canal winding its way through the meadows between reed-fringed banks.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.