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The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

This attractive town of grey slate houses sits at the edge of Bodmin Moor on the banks of the Camel. A camel weathercock wittily crowns the fine Town Hall, built in 1806.

This tiny village straddles a steep slope above the east bank of the Fowey River. Down the slipway beyond the historic Ferry Inn, car ferries ply to and fro across the waters of the Fowey.

On the right, the imposing 18th-century brick frontage of Lloyd's Bank, with its stone pediment and columned entrance, faces the small shops across the road.

The wooded banks of this stretch of water are best explored by boat at high tide, though even at low tide the extensive mud flats are home to a huge variety of birdlife.

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

This view shows the bank before its additional floor and new façade were added. Today's traffic has brought lights around a much-reduced traffic island, which has lost the trees and shrubs.

In the background, under its handsome pedimented clock, is the local Savings Bank.

To the left of the Town Hall is the local branch of the National Provincial Bank, while to the right The Central Pharmacy is still a chemists, but under the name of Cherrington.

Situated on the Great Ouse (Over actually means 'river bank'), the church of St Mary is lavishly built from Barnack stone, with an ornately decorated interior, and stone seats extending around much of

Buckland Rings, the great earthworks nearby, probably date back to the Iron Age, though the Romans used the fortifications during their invasion of England - coins of the Emperor Claudius have been found

In 1908, the view of the town looking back under the bridge was unobstructed.

All these buildings survive, such as Webb's Hotel and the East Cornwall Bank (now Barclays) on the right, although half of the house behind the car has been demolished to widen the road.

Its subsequent decline eventually saw it transformed into a training centre for Lloyds Bank employees.

Up the bank on the right is the parish church, and the road also leads to the Old Hall.

Morris Garages and the premises of Barclays Bank are on the right. Note that there are several cyclists in the picture; the number of bicycles in Oxford has grown dramatically in recent years.

There are many delightful walks along the banks of the Severn, and opportunities to take to the water in a variety of boats.

Barclays Bank (left) closed in 1998, and the grocer's shop, then International Stores and finally Gateway, closed in 1983 and is now private housing.

These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.The university was an amalgamation of three earlier institutions, the Sheffield School of Medicine, the Firth

The biggest change today is a nasty 1970s building that replaces the bank on the right - and the continuig absence of the market.

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

It was also known by other names, the Primrose Bank Institution and Moorfields.

The brick and flint walls on the left were demolished for road widening; this took the 1960s concrete panel retaining wall near to Bank Farm, whose chimney is on the left.

The castle stands on the bank of the River Teith at its junction with the Ardoch.