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At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.

of boating consider that the River Thames is at its best around Shepperton, particularly when a regatta is being held, with boats crowding the river and excited spectators lining the banks

With its modern tower and spire rising 140 feet above Twyford, the handsome church looks out across woods and meadows towards the bank of the Itchen.

Some of the old windmills that grace its banks have been lovingly restored but, of course, no longer carry out their original task of draining the marshes.

The river has witnessed thousands of years of history; the people of the Stone Age made their homes on its banks.

Unlike most churches, it has no tower to mark its position, and few people passing through Astwood Bank will even realise it has a church.

A clipper-bowed excursion steamer crowded with passengers heads along the Dee, attracting little attention from the young fishermen on the bank.

This photograph looks down Bank Street towards the High Street and the River Medway. This street is known for its fine timber buildings, many with a conspicuous overhang.

The National Provincial Bank building stands on the left. The clock tower lies just off to the right.

The boathouse on the opposite bank belongs to Sharpham House, the Georgian pile visible above the trees, which was designed by Sir Robert Taylor.

Another is berthed on the opposite bank, identifiable by the wide, shallow hull and very high pennanted mast.

Bank Street underwent an unexpected transformation in February 1941, when this corner was destroyed by a bomb.

Motor cruisers are moored along the public bank, and a young lad is quanting (a method of propelling by means of a pole, similar to punting) a dinghy along the shallow waterway.

As a result, tanners and shoemakers set up in business along its banks.

Two girls play with a hoop on the banks of the Thames, not far from Staines. Historically, Staines marked the end of the jurisdiction of the City of London over the river.

This is the long, staid High Street of this small village on the banks of the river Lea viewed from the opposite direction from photograph No 81859, with the Pied Bull over on the left, and the bow-fronted

Hamworthy is on the right bank.

The school, now a museum and library, sits comfortably beneath the bank on which the parish church of St?Michael, seen in the background, stands.

This scene, with its rocky riverbed and tree-clad banks, has hardly changed in a century.

Imagine the pleasure of gliding along between meadow grass and wild flowers on the banks, accompanied by the music of birdsong.

Looking along George Street from Market Square, the timber-framed building and Ellis's were replaced in 1910 in Jacobean style by Market Chambers and a bank.

Just past the Midland Bank, looking north west, the elegant late Victorian shops on the left survive, although W H Smith has now moved on.

It has been pedestrianised with trees, imitation gas globe lights and CCTV, with Starbucks occupying the old Lloyds Bank building (extreme right) and an opticians shop in lieu of E J Gibbs on the corner

The banks of the original Iron Age fort can still be seen in this photograph. The Normans built a cathedral within it which was abandoned in the 13th century.