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The bank is now the Nat West, and beyond the right-hand buildings is the modern Fernbank Shopping Centre.

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

This photograph looks eastwards along East Street from the southern pavement, with the Midland Bank opposite (left).

Few national brands were to be seen on the main street, apart from Lipton's grocery and the Westminster Bank visible in this photograph; the remainder are locally owned and managed businesses.

The Assheton Arms, an old coaching inn, is at the bottom of Long Street, with the Williams Deacons and Salford Bank, designed by Edgar Wood, to its right.

Opposite is the Central Hotel and Barclays Bank. The White Hart is shown on a town map of 1839 and is likely to be 15th-century in origin.

It has trap doors for direct loading into the narrow barges, or 'cuckoos' as they were known, and a crane on the canal bank. It is now part of the Lock Tavern, which fronts the road.

This building, a fine example of a Georgian town house, is now Barclays Bank.

The earthen banks of several protective blast-barriers still pockmark the site. They were no help, sadly, to the three men who died in an explosion here in 1913.

This is one of two mills on the north bank of the Wharfe.

Hest Bank remains the starting point for Guide Cedric Robinson to lead groups safely across the treacherous quicksands of Morecambe Bay.

From the mid 20th century the Thames was used less for industry, with fewer barges and tugs and fewer wharves for industry on its banks, giving ample room for sailing and pleasure boats.

The Westminster Bank and the Dixon Arms were both there to serve the farmers who came to the market.

Further downstream and opposite Hampton Court, Molesey Lock is photographed from Riverbank, the busy A3050 along the Surrey bank of the River Thames.

This evocative late Victorian view with the youths posing beside Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Statue is very much an archive photograph: only the building to the left, a bank, now the

The boy is lying on the grassy riverside bank known as the Batts.

The shop on the right is occupied by Finlay's shoe shop, as is attested by the display outside — today it is the HSBC Bank.

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

At the end the vista across Hare Lane is closed by the 1930s Westminster Bank, now a travel agency, and trees.

Next door is Barclays Bank of 1879.

Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.

The National Provincial Bank of England on the left was built in 1901-03 on the site of the first houses to be built outside the medieval town walls in 1797.

One in desperation has left his gear on the bank and has paddled into the river to assist the other hopefuls in an attempt to locate some fish.

In the summer time and on Bank Holidays, you could be an hour just getting through this mile-long village.