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His shop was to be replaced within a year by the Westminster Bank. On the right is Robert Mattingley's clothing and boot warehouse, and the Anchor, kept by Robert Angier.

Water can also be a curse, and the Mole has burst its banks here in recent years.

This scene, looking north along Banks Road from the corner of Eaton Road, has changed very little in recent years. There is still a newsagents on the corner with Alexandra Road on the left.

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

Apart from the Baker's Arms on Barkby Road corner and an extended bank, the village's main shopping area is now but a memory.

Beyond Barclays bank, on the left, the United Reformed Church is set back from the street. A cluster of bus signs has begun to gather on the left.

Simonds Bank is now Barclays, and Armstrongs has become Eighteens. A tea-room has opened on the corner of Princess Street to cater for the increase in the population.

On the far side of the lagoon is Chesil Bank.

The plate by the window to the left of the door (now a window) shows that this was also the telegraph office and money order office, and also the Post Office Savings Bank.

Many buildings survive, apart from the 1890s mock- Tudor Barclays Bank, which was rebuilt in the 1980s.

The building nearest to us is in fact the West Lancashire Bank, which opened in 1879; it was later acquired for an extension to the library.

The pencil works of A Banks on the right is an example of one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.

The timbered building beyond is a branch of the National Westminster Bank, and the properties beyond that have all been demolished in the interests of building mundane blocks of shops.

The church beyond is St Michael's, rebuilt in 1901 to the design of Sir Arthur Blomfield, who was also the architect of the Bank of England in London.

On the left, the weatherboarded bank has been demolished and replaced by a car business, but the store beyond remains as a general store and post office.

This is something of a contrast to the mock-Tudor bank with its three storeys of timber-framing, now the Woolwich.

Here we have a clearer view of the tall Town Hall building to the right, and beyond it lies the premises of the National Provincial Bank.

The Trustee Savings Bank building, on the right, was formerly the office of Stroud's Conservative newspaper, the Stroud News.

To the right are the offices of the Paramount Building Society and the Co-operative Insurance Society above the Midland Bank.

It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000—the Post Office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

The arrival of the railway in 1867, and the 1872 National Bank Holiday Act, opened Walton up to everybody.

There are here a commodious pier, and a sandy beach well supplied with bathing machines, donkeys, minstrels, and the like attractions for the amusement of the Bank Holiday crowds.

This is one of the ponds, Banks Pond, on the main east-west road through the village; the scene is relatively unchanged, although out of view to the left is now a parade of 1960s shops.

Banks are now found in Eastgate Street, on the left-hand side of this picture, which eventually leads to the under-cover Kings Walk shops.