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The ornate building on the right, occupied by the Midland Bank at the time this photograph was taken, is still there, but it is now Hamiltons, a pub and wine bar.

It still stands, with the surrounding grounds transformed into a park; the house is now used by numerous clubs and societies. The ivy has been stripped off, and a café is now situated round the back.

In 1949 the market was moved to Red Lion Street, but it is now back on two sides of the Green - Market Place and Church Green East.

Viewing platforms can still be seen on each bank. The first Oxford v Cambridge boat race took place here in 1829.

The High Street is noted for its Arcade shopping centre, which dates back to 1901 and includes ornamental stained glass.

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

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

A royd is a northern name for an assart, a practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.

Here, a little south of Cookham, is the My Lady Ferry with the lock-keeper's cottage on the far bank.

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.

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

The quay to the right belonging to Hockin & Co is now a car park. In the right distance, the building that used to be a blacksmith's shop is now a museum. Houses line the left hand bank.

In the centre is the Royal Oak Hotel and the Wilts and Dorset Bank. Next door (right) Charles Edward Bazley offers Humber and Swift bicycles.

Dating back to the 18th century, the deed to each of these cottages restricts the householder to replacing the thatched roof only with thatch, and further prescribes the method and colour of redecoration

The roof of the Market House, to the left of the picture, dates back to the 16th century and was preserved when road-widening operations took place in 1937.

The warehouses of Boston have suffered in recent years; the ones on the right on the opposite bank have been converted into flats, but the distant one has been, like so many of its companions, demolished

This dates back to 1927, replacing an older inn demolished as part of a road widening scheme.

Standing above the east bank of the river Stour, Wye was a royal manor before the Norman Conquest, and was given by William I to Battle Abbey in Susses.

They lend a timeless charm, though few of the buildings date back further than the 17th century.

The main change that immediately strikes the visitor today is that the lovely old Victorian Barclays Bank building (right) has gone, to be replaced by yet another typical 1960s monstrosity.

The vegetation on the far bank has now grown to fill the open spaces shown here, giving the whole site an impression of being far removed from the centre of a busy and thriving town.

More recently it was a retirement home for servants of the Bankes family, owners of the Kingston Lacy Estate until 1981. The 14 almshouses date from the 16th-19th centuries.

This view of Welton, looking back up the main street, has changed dramatically in recent years.

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.