Search Results

It has since served as a police station, reading room and bank.

The older part is naturally more interesting, with its quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

High walls enclose the water channel, for although the village lies some seven miles from the coast, it is barely above sea-level: the houses lining the river bank have been flooded many times over

On the far bank, to the left, lie Fleetwood's docks. The large building is the North Euston Hotel, and to its right is the lower of Fleetwood's two lighthouses.

The Capital and Counties Bank is still very much to the fore, while the premises of Mellor's jewellers shop are somewhat overshadowed next door.

This lovely half-timbered house is typical of many houses in this quiet neighbourhood, not far from the banks of the River Severn.

In 1811 Sir Walter Scott purchased the Cartley Hole estate on the banks of the Tweed and changed its name to Abbotsford.

On the right is the imposing facade of the old National Provincial Bank.

Just out of the picture, high on the right bank, is the path from Love Lane and Wolversdene Road to the bridge. The trap and donkey cart going into town have stopped to pose for the picture.

Here from the Reading bank we look towards the 1869 iron Caversham bridge; it was demolished in 1924 to be replaced in 1926 by the present concrete one.

The old wooden hut on the bank is sliding inevitably down into the shallows, its thatched roof rotted and patched.

Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo, 'Newton and Noss' to all locals, line the opposite banks of the Yealm estuary.

The Midland Bank occupies a small but distinctive stone building next door to Mill Bay laundry, and Myners the butcher's uses the ground floor of Tremayne House (left).

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

The new W H Smith building, near left, had replaced the bank since 1926.

The building may be the Priory Mill, which was owned by the Phillips family; they also owned the Porter Stores public house in Cross Street where Lloyds Bank now stands.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

George Lynn advertises his wares with considerable vigour on the south side of the triangular square, originally called Cross Bank.

Lloyds Bank is now Ken's Fish Shop, and motor traffic congests the road even out of season, forcing pedestrians to cross the river via a separate footbridge.

On the west bank of the Taw, this view shows the old road (left), and new one (right). The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge. There are boat rollers by the Isleworth bank on the right, and Richmond Lock is on the left.

In this picture, The Square is beginning to acquire its modern layout with marked parking bays in the centre, one-way arrows and white lines to define the bus-stop outside the Midland Bank

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

The building may be the Priory Mill, which was owned by the Phillips family; they also owned the Porter Stores public house in Cross Street where Lloyds Bank now stands.