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Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.

The Midland Bank is no more, but the flat-roofed building that sticks out like a sore thumb is still there.

Although spinning and weaving were Paisley's main industries, there were also several shipyards along the banks of the River Cart. The longest lived was Fleming & Ferguson.

Ellen & Son, estate agents, is where Gilbert & Heath opened Heath's Bank by 1807. Opposite was Heath's Brewery, started by Charles Heath in 1778, shortly before coaching reached its peak.

This imposing 17th-century mansion was originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren for Henry Guy, and was formerly a home of the Gore family, before being purchased by the Rothschild banking family

Today it houses the Yorkshire Bank and Provident Personal Credit.

The Midland Bank is no more, but the flat-roofed building that sticks out like a sore thumb is still there.

Search the high bank on the opposite side of the road and find remnants of a Gothic folly which once ornamented the grounds of The Park.

In the Civil War it was defended by the indomitable Lady Bankes, who held out for six weeks, to the annoyance of the besieging Parliamentary troops.

Here, however, anglers are enjoying a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe. One has caught something – he is dipping his keep-net into the water.

Donkeys carried the goods up the steep slope from the wharf and the path up is still known as Ferry Bank.

The nearest building on the right was originally Lloyds Bank. In 1914 it became a private school run by two ladies named Gamlen.

The Post Office is still there in this photograph, and so is the District Bank next door - two disappearing amenities that we once, more or less, took for granted.

The Midland Bank (right) is now a wine bar, and the Grange Hotel (left) is now known as the Charing Cross.

The arrival of modern motor-traffic over subsequent decades means this generous space is now more often used as a crowded car park, and on the Spring Bank Holiday as the setting for an annual Pilgrims

The walled enclosure on the far bank is inscribed 'This Sheltered Corner was Endowed by Harold and Winifred Morgan in Memory of their Father, James Henry Morgan'.

Here we see the river bridges and Nag's Head island, which separates the main river on the right and the back water on its left.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

On the north side of the street the confident commercial frontage is that of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, which was absorbed into Lloyds (right).

This is the centre of Milford, with the road to Keyhaven and the coast on the right by the Midland Bank.

Pride of place goes to the new-looking Victorian façade of Lloyd's Bank decorated with window boxes.

In 1888 there were no less than 88 houseboats and 55 launches moored along the river banks.

This view is from the Buckinghamshire bank, looking north from the A4 Bath Road immediately east of the bridge.