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Lynn (the King's was added by Charles I in recognition of this town's loyalty to the Royalist cause) lies about 1.5 miles inland, where Lynn Cut meets the Great Ouse.

The White Horse Hotel, right foreground, advertises its select bowling saloon. The horse of the sign seems to be emerging from White Horse Lane just beyond the hotel.

The White Horse Hotel, right foreground, advertises its select bowling saloon. The horse of the sign seems to be emerging from White Horse Lane just beyond the hotel.

The chequered brick and weather boarded cottage (right) is Barclays Bank; it opened in 1910 in what was then the front room of a cottage. The bank was to stay here until 1999.

The lower buildings on the right were demolished during the building of the Great Central Railway in the late 1890s.

Grattons, on the right, was replaced in the 1920s by the Midland Bank seen in photograph No 88415, now of course the HSBC bank.

The garden in the foreground is that of a house aptly named Arrow Bank, a beautifully situated house now used for a bed and breakfast business.

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

Mill Bank, or simply 'Loftus Bank', forms the approach to Loftus from Carlin How and, to this day, tests the skills of even the most careful driver, particularly in the winter months.

Note the signal box in the centre of the picture with the signals to its right.

This view westwards shows (from left to right) the Midland Bank, Mac Fisheries, Cathedral Antiques (the Abbey National Building Society today), a solicitor's premises, and Traveller's Joy travel

We are looking down the High Street towards Barclays Bank.

Raunds used to be a bustling manufacturing centre for shoes, but most of the factories have now gone.

Mitton means 'the village where the streams meet'. The Hodder and the Ribble meet here, and that is what gave the area its name.

Situated on the Peddars Way on the banks of the River Nar, it has an old castle and a picturesque priory. William de Warrenne was granted Castle Acre by William the Conqueror.

Once the railway arrived in 1885, the manorial village of Scalby grew into a genteel Victorian suburb of Scarborough.

We are now in the centre of Eastleigh; in fact, we are looking from the station along Leigh Road, originally a farm track but steadily improved and extended as the town grew.

Matlock Bank in the centre spreads up the eastern bank of the Derwent.

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

On the left is the corner of Lloyds Bank; then comes Siddal and Kirby's shoe shop, the Wool Shop, now Nationwide with a new shop front, and the Midland Bank.

The Old House dates from 1612 and was originally a guildhall for the city's butchers. More recently it housed a branch of Lloyds Bank, who gave the building to the city in 1927.

The Green Bank Hotel, on the south bank of the Penryn River, was built in 1785 to cash in on the trade brought to the town by the mail packets.

The war memorial to the men of two world wars also includes W G Greenwood, who died in 1951 in Korea.

With the High Street to the left, and two little girls (right) posing with all the assurance of modern models outside the villa adjoining Dale's ornamental shop entrance, a cart stands at the beginning