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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.

This group of children and their parents or nannies is enjoying the sun and fresh air on the bank of the River Deben.

This shows the bank designed by Archibald Simpson (1839), topped with a statue of Demeter, and a large block of houses by John Smith (c1810), showing Smith's characteristic recessed, curved corner.

The busy industrial town can be seen on the opposite bank.

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

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.

The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.

The entire left bank in the picture would then have been uncultivated.

On the right, the old Crown Bank of 1866 became the post office.

Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

The fine Italianate stucco building of about 1850 on the right survives, and is now Lloyds Bank. Virtually everything else has gone.

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.

Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

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.

On the right of the photograph are various businesses, including Barclays Bank, a tobacconist, a hardware store and a dairy.

On the opposite bank is a typical fen farmhouse with a steep roof and tall parapet gables. Boats were loaded at Hythe Lane.

The most notorious abbot of Furness Abbey was undoubtedly Alexander Banks. One William Case, on behalf of the people of Sellergarth, sued him in court in 1516.

At the end of the street the Midland Bank took over Whipps in 1963 and extended the bank over the site.

The building in the centre of the row, at the end of Bancks Street, was all that remained of the older buildings. Then a bank, it is now an estate agents.

The bank of the river Deben. Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.

On the far bank is one of the stages for excursion steamers, and a station for the hire of rowing boats.

Their younger sister stands on the bank, clear of trouble.

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