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This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo, 'Newton and Noss' to all locals, line the opposite banks of the Yealm estuary.

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.

Here we are looking east towards the hill down to the Hamble River. On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants.

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

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

The pleasure of children playing contentedly around their sand castle, on the far side of the river, creates a charming picture often repeated with the passing years.

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.

Another moment in the square caught by the camera. This appears to be lunchtime judging by the number of peo- ple taking their ease.

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

With the decline in industries such as iron, steel and coal, many villages such as this went into steep decline. There are still signs of life, however!

Boyle Cross was a fountain erected in 1871 and used for washing fish for the market. On the right is Lloyd's Bank, and beyond it is the entrance to Cheap Street.

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.

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

Buildings such as Woking's fine, if somewhat dull, Old Bank had no place in the exciting, post-war redeveloped Woking.

The boy on the left appears to have been diverted from what he was doing: probably he has been hailed by the two cyclists opposite Lloyd's Bank, who seem to be about to head across the road towards him

As a market town, Fakenham serves the needs of a wide area of villages and farms - as is suggested by the presence of the main national banks.

It later became the NatWest Bank. The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.

The original crossing here was a ford, probably used since Bronze Age times. The present bridge bears a plaque inscribed 'County Bridge 1792'.

On the right is the half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.

Moored alongside the far bank is a floating tea room, which appears to be doing a brisk trade. The rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well.

This fine view of the Howden Dam, with the forbidding moorland of Bleaklow beyond, is taken from Abbey Bank, on the edge of the Howden Moors.

On the right is the half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.