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The Bell Hotel next door is also still there, but the building beyond has gone, being replaced by Lloyds Bank. The entrance canopy of the Chequers Hotel has been removed.

The design for this park cleverly concealed a mineral railway line, which crossed the park from Bank Hall Colliery (owned by the Thursbys) to join the mineral tramway, which served Rowley Colliery.

On the left is Porch House, a heavily-restored 16th-century house, now a bank, with the pavement passing through its ground floor.

The Westminster Bank (right) has taken over from Ellwoods, and the trees have begun to grow in the front yard to the Congregational Church.

The car and charabanc parked on the opposite bank show that Acle was an attraction for trippers between the wars.

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'.

side of the Broadway was totally transformed: in the early 1930s Arnolds Cottage, a double- fronted late Victorian villa, was demolished, to be replaced by a single-storey terrace of shops with a bank

The River Ribble in summer is the most pleasant of rivers, and to picnic and paddle by its banks has been a delight for many centuries.

North Street joins High Street by Lloyds Bank, and it is down here on the left that we find the last Daventry Grammar School building.

Standing on rising ground on the west bank of the River Gwendraeth, Kidwelly and its fortified town were founded by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury during the reign of Henry I.

Standing on the bank of the Great Ouse about a mile from the centre of Kempston, the parish church is a stone building wherein the tower, at least, is Norman in origin.

Opposite is Cawdells' department store with its imposing 1930s frontage; demonstrating the commercial success and wealth of Watford are branches of the National Provincial, Barclays and Lloyds Banks.

Here we see the river bank of the Ribble just west of the main railway bridge at the end of South Meadows.

The build- ing on the right is the Midland Bank; between it and the church- yard is a narrow passage, now called Church Lane, leading to the south door of the church.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.

The plank serving as a gangway to the vessel from the bank had, until comparatively recent legislation, been the cause of many an accident as crew returned to their various ships after

Along the opposite bank, next to the present day garden centre, is the start of the 73 mile-long Dales Way to Bowness in the Lake District.

The green island has gone, and the terrace of three cottages on the left was rebuilt in the 1960s as a Nat West Bank.

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.

In the days of steam, at least one extra banking engine (often more) was required to push each train up the Lickey.

Leaving the path we can descend to the foot of the cliffs to this weir, and leaving the woods, walk back to the village along the river bank.

In the last forty or so years, very little has changed in the High Street, although the recently built premises of the Midland Bank (right) has now become a private house.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street. Thoughts of war seem far away in this peaceful, unhurried scene.

R L Kisby and the Trustee Savings Bank (right) have gone, and Mills the newsagents have taken their place.