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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

Here we see a typical shopping parade of the 1950s. It includes two banks, a newsagent's and a garage. The Midland Bank, on the corner of the row, now bears the name HSBC.

The businesses on the left have all gone, but Barclays Bank, the impressive building on the right, and Lloyds Bank farther up the High Street remain in the town - although Lloyds has moved

The Roach was covered here in 1910. The Oldham Joint Stock Bank on the right had become the London City and Midland Bank.

Both views are from the Berkshire bank. One was taken looking towards the bridge; the other was taken looking north-east to the finish- ing line.

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.

On the right is the splendid facade of the old Northamptonshire Union Bank, which became the National Provincial Bank and today is Nat West.

Coventry endured dozens of air raids from 1940 to 1942, and much of the city centre was flattened. The stately buildings on the right here are among the few which survived the bombs.

Originally built for Barclays, the Midland Bank was built in 1908 in the Georgian style from a design by Hugh Seebohm.

The Frogmore Café (left) offered busy shoppers a break until 1969, when it was taken over by Sketchleys the cleaners.

An Edwardian, steeply-gabled terrace of shops and flats overlooks the dignified stone island War Memorial of 1923, with its stepped approach.

This view from The Groves shows The Cross (right) and Eagle Brow (left.)

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat

The Angel's sash windows replace the original windows, although the medieval stone hood moulds survive, as do the buttresses.

By 1941 planning was well under way to rebuild the shattered heart of Coventry.

Very little of the Roman occupation of Dorchester, Durnovaria, remains.

The amount of change since 1929 is surprisingly small, although Cookes the stationer's has become Austin's.

Between the right-hand blind and the entrance doorway was the London City and Midland Bank, forerunner of the Midland Bank, and now the police office.