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Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse.

Returning to the Square, we are once again looking at Market Street.

We are looking out over Grange to Morecambe Bay from Charney Well Road, which rises steeply above the town. Now, houses occupy the slope in front of the camera.

This view depicts the bustle in West Steet, with children and cycles, and a flock of sheep being driven uphill (left of centre). Market stalls for animals can be seen between the trees.

North from St Mary's Street, St John's Street leads past St John's Church into Red Lion Square, the market place.

The parish church of St James stands inside a banked enclosure that was once the Bishop of Lincoln's manor. From here his estate of four nearby parishes was managed for more than five hundred years.

This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

We are now on the north or Essex bank of the Thames Estuary. This rather quaint view shows the then 'up to the minute' toll booths of the newly-opened Dartford Tunnel.

With the Mumbles Railway carrying as many as 40,000 passengers on a bank holiday, the village prospered. The name 'Mumbles' actually derives from the French 'mamelles', meaning 'breasts'.

To the left of the picture are the grounds of the Staff College; they were fully open to the public, who could enjoy the fine walks and sit by the lakes.

Further along the north bank the Thames passes Chelsea's Cheyne Walk.

The harbour, with the sea lock in the far distance, still exists today, albeit completely altered. The quay to the right belonging to Hockin & Co is now a car park.

The Mansion Family Hotel appears on the extreme left of this picture, taken from the top of Exeter Lane across the Pleasure Gardens.

Many of the shops seen in this picture have gone or changed hands.

The Thames, or Isis, plays an important role in Oxford university life.

War Memorial Gardens were laid out to the north of Memorial Avenue between it and the Canch, as this stretch of the River Ryton is known.

We are looking along Grange Road from the corner of Oxton Road.

Past Cliveden is one of the most beautiful stretches of the Thames with its tree-clad river cliffs.

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

On the triangular village green, far left, is the war memorial and another recording the tragedy in August 1944 when an American bomber aeroplane fell on Holy Trinity village school.

Tree-lined, and with lush green river banks, the River Ribble runs through pretty villages and on to Clitheroe, joining with the River Calder and the River Hodder.

Here we are looking along the stretch of the river where the famous Henley Regatta takes place. Viewing platforms can still be seen on each bank.

The gardens behind Bank House, situated in the lower High Street, were given to the town of Stroud in 1930 by Mr Ernest Winterbotham, and were intended as a quiet corner where shop workers could enjoy

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.