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The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond

We are looking from the Beacon Hill area.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

The International Stores (right) has had a shop here since c1900, but by 1986 it had become Gateway.

The hatted ladies are leaving the Suspension Bridge on the north bank, the Embankment Gardens side: casual wear in the 1920s was somewhat more formal than today.

The south bank always remained less formal than the north; it is a series of islands separated from the 'mainland' by a back river, which in its turn is separated by weirs from the north river.

This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to

Also built during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year was Frederick Wheeler's proud bank, now the Nat West, in Queen Anne style in plum brick and with extensive Bath stone dressings.

General Wolfe spent his childhood in Quebec House and is said to have passed his last night in his beloved town at the George and Dragon, shown here in the foreground.

South-east of the village, a lane crosses the county boundary with Bedfordshire along the upper reaches of the young River Ouzel.

On the left is the jettied former Guildhall. At this end was Mark Ellis the tailor, later Fleming's Antiques; at the other end Barclays Bank.

The dog was Black Shuck, who supposedly attacked worshippers at church here and at Blythburgh in 1557.

This is the River Deben, viewed from near the Sailing Club House looking downstream towards White House; Waldringfield is to the right and Petistree Hall, in Sutton, is over to the left.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

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.

Only a solitary punt and a small rowing dinghy occupy the 267ft-long lock on this summer day. Beyond the lock gates the Thames will carry the boats down to Laleham and Chertsey.

The turning for Glebe Road is by the double-fronted house in the centre, and the National Provincial Bank was later built on the opposite corner.

A closer view of the transept.

The large half-timbered building on the left with its awnings out was built in the mid-1890s, and became the local branch of F W Woolworths.

In the 1890s there were several tramway schemes to link Southport to Lytham St Anne's, though the real fly in the ointment was bridging the River Ribble.

On 18 July 1844 the London and North Western Railway Company began work to extend the railway from Lancaster to Carlisle.

The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan hall.

The Exeter Ship Canal, five miles long, reaches the sea at Topsham, and was built in 1564-6 after the building of a bridge at Countess Wear stopped the use of the river for trade.