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The sign of the popular White Lion Hotel is just visible in the centre of this photograph and Barclays Bank (now Ladbrokes) is on the far left.

The imposing Greek portico is the east front of the Bank of Ireland, originally the entrance to the House of Lords of the Irish Parliament, erected by James Gandon in 1785.

Looking east, the steep bank has a low covering of bushes which obscure the views if allowed to grow up, and in 2004 a lot of clearing work was done.

Moored alongside the far bank is a floating tea room which appears to be doing a brisk trade. The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well.

This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch and

A local legend says that the church was to have been built on the banks of the River Roch, but every night the materials were mysteriously shifted to the top of a nearby hill by 'goblin builders'.

It was (and is) also used for leisure pursuits: people hired boats to row on the canal, and fishermen cast from the banks.

When in 1817 the bridge opened, and was named in honour of the Battle of Waterloo victory two years earlier, the Thames flowed under this first arch on the northern bank.

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

The rock formation on the opposite bank of the river is a soft sandstone into which caves were cut long ago; it was once used as a hermitage.

The imposing building in the left foreground is home to Lloyd's Bank; it replaced the town's Assembly Rooms in 1900.

All is peace and quiet on the banks of the Severn. In Worcestershire the number of people working on the land in 1861 was 16,679. By 1931 this had fallen by 46% to just 8,970.

Lloyds Bank, just visible on the left, faces a parade of different shops, and the size of Paige's department store at the corner of Vaughan Street indicates that new sources of wealth had been tapped.

The offices of the former National Provincial Bank - now NatWest - stand imposingly on the right.

The Midland Bank on the right is now the Halifax. Vicomte François Chateaubriand, the French writer and diplomat, lived in exile next door from 1793 to 1795.

Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library. The tall building opposite was the Town Hall, which had lost its colonnaded front when it became a shop.

The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School.

Opposite is Woolworths, and then come the District Bank, T H Deville & Sons, butchers, and Dorothy Perkins, ladies' outfitters.

A line of mainly 18th- and 19th-century cottages line the banks of the mighty River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, a small settlement to the south of Darlington and very close to the borders of County Durham.

This statue of Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) stands outside the Bank of Ireland (formerly the Parliament House) and shows the great orator in the act of speaking.

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave Road over his drive to the river bank

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.