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Risca is a parish and village in the valley between the Twyn Barlwyn and the Machen mountains. Lloyds Bank with the white-painted frontage is visible on the right.

This impressive building was the Parkstone branch of the Wiltshire and Dorset Bank. The roads around Parkstone are much busier these days, encouraging journeys on foot or using public transport.

Four years after this photograph was taken, the Thames burst its banks and floodwater raged through Bray. According to local sources, a fish was even caught in the high street.

Looking down towards St Andrew's Street, with First Court, the oldest part of Christ's College, in the distance. The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.

They called the main railway line from Crewe to Glasgow the West Coast Main Line, but here at Hest Bank is the only spot where you can actually see the coast and the sea beyond.

The Royal Hotel (left) vied with the George in attracting a superior local clientele. Next door, the drapers, Pritchard's, has a sun awning to prevent the window display fading.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

If the High Street represents remarkable survival, London Road does not. The fine Italianate stucco building of about 1850 on the right survives, and is now Lloyds Bank.

We are looking from the Frimley Road up a busy Osnaburgh Parade, with Barclays Bank on the corner. The road rises quite steeply towards Camberley, and there is a lack of road markings.

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

An excellent view of the rebuilt suspension bridge, which is for pedestrians only. On the far bank is one of the stages for excursion steamers, and a station for the hire of rowing boats.

With a little stretch of the imagination one can visualise the original medieval town huddled below the abbey and the church.

Prince of Wales Road was cut through the town in 1862 to provide a fittingly grand route from Thorpe Station. On the right, the old Crown Bank of 1866 became the post office.

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

An idyllic scene: flowers in the foreground, the lake and the boat house against a setting of trees and shrubs — but the chimney of Bank Hall Colliery is a reminder that we are in Burnley.

The Midland Bank and Woolworth's store draw the eye into this photograph of a remarkably traffic-free Square.

This view looks downstream to the Rush Cutters pub from the south bank. The boating business is still there; it is now called Hearts Cruises, and has a wider range of boats than in 1919.

West Street is now pedestrianised, but the Chart and Lawrence department store and Lloyds Bank on the opposite corner are still trading.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

The Midland Bank occupies the site of Scales' boot and shoe shop and Spencer & Co's grand frontage has fallen victim to an infestation of 'Magnet Ales' signs on behalf of the Wheat Sheaf.

Here we see the peaceful banks of the New River, with houseboats and leisure craft moored alongside.