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More recently it housed a branch of Lloyds Bank, who gave the building to the city in 1927.

The bank on the right was Simonds Bank, opposite Princess Street, now called Princess Way.

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.

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.

Nowadays the bank is more formalised and the trees are fewer than in this view, which looks along the river bank north-east to the suspension bridge.

London was the banking capital of the world, and this is reflected by the bustling City scene shown here, with the imposing Bank of England in the background.

London was the banking capital of the world, and this is reflected by the bustling City scene shown here, with the imposing Bank of England in the background.

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

The structure behind the drinking fountain is the Simeon Monument, 'erected and lighted for ever at the expense of Edward Simeon as a mark of affection to his native town' in 1804.

This well-ordered scene is typical of the high quality ambience of the suburb as a whole, and well anticipated by the Midland Bank with its impressive, yet restrained, neo-classical frontage, exactly as

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

Barrow Corporation purchased Biggar Bank on Walney in 1881 to serve as a public recreation ground for the people of the expanding town of Barrow.

Barclays Bank, next door, still operates in what has been banking premises for over 120 years.

The National Provincial Bank (now NatWest) was built in 1931, when the High Street was widened (involving substantial demolition).

Today Martin's Bank (centre left) is occupied by an estate agent, reflecting Lymm's status as a housing hot spot, whilst Barclay's Bank (centre) trades from a less harmonious modern building.

From the south bank the photographer looks across to Queenhithe dock.

The trees in the park have all been chamfered up to a certain height to prevent them being grazed by the Bankes family's famous herd of Red Devon cattle.

Although the front betrays its 19th- century restoration, take a step back and one can see the complex Tudor chimneys of the original manor house.

The village stands at the foot of the Hog's Back close to Aldershot, but it is actually in the parish of Guildford.

This is the road down to the shore (and Red Bank Farm).

High street shoppers in 1931 were finding that prices were continuing to fall back to their pre-Great War levels.

This busy shopping street has buildings of human scale of the 1920s and 30s, with a prominent well-designed Midland Bank sign now replaced by the anonymous HSBC of the Eastern Banking Empire.

However, there are some fine Georgian and Victorian buildings - one is the bank at the far side, peeping our behind the trees.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.