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We are looking at West Bank and the Victoria Promenade. This area had been regarded as a holiday resort, and had been known as Wood-end 150 years before.

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank. This has since been converted to a pub called 'The Old Bank'.

On the left we can see Barclay's Bank, on the corner of Cricklade Street. This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.

However, the amphitheatre was a converted hillfort, known as Maumbury Rings, a substantial circular bank with a pair of opposing entrances.

A footbridge now spans the river between the two and there has been extensive development on both banks of the river.

E J Tong the ironmongers next door are still in business and still in the same building, and so is Barclay's Bank.

The tall building on the right, where the delivery vehicle is parked outside, is that of the London and Provincial Bank.

A quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

Newly built in red bricks is Coode, Shilson and Co's St Austell Bank (now National Westminster); it was commonly known as 'the red bank'.

Until Barclays Bank was built in 1904, the Methodist church had the only public clock in the village.

Barclays Bank is now a restaurant and take-away, while the Westminster Bank on the right is offices.

The building beyond, between it and the Queen Anne style bank, was demolished about 1930 and replaced by a smart Moderne stone-fronted Midland Bank.

Walmersley was a township within Bury on the east bank of the Irwell.

On the left stands Barclays Bank. This was built around 1905 on the site of the London and South West Bank, which in turn had replaced a Tudor farm house.

In July 1965 this was transformed into the Westminster Bank, where Mr Gambrill was the manager - he had been with the bank for 31 years. Boots is still here, and there is a regular market.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

The old lords of Kingston were the Norman nobles, the Lacys, but this palatial Restoration house was built in 1663-5 for Sir Ralph Bankes, the son of the former attorney general Sir John.

The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.

Now there is a spate of banks. Boots have changed their location to be in one of the new shops.

Now there is a spate of banks. Boots have changed their location to be in one of the new shops.

If the Lloyds office adds to the prestige of the establishment, then it seems no harm was done by accommodating a band-room.

An iron footbridge connects Bevere Island to the east bank and a lock, built in 1844, to the west bank. The name comes from Beaver Island but the beavers died out over 1,000 years ago.

A smart two-seater convertible is parked outside the imposing Barclays Bank, which had been built in 1910 as the Boston & Spalding Bank.