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Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'. Bus timetables announce United Counties services.

The western part is a burial vault for the Bankes family.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway. The oldest building, the Bishop's Palace, fronts the river beside the great medieval church of All Saints.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway. The oldest building, the Bishop's Palace, fronts the river beside the great medieval church of All Saints.

Lloyds Bank - to the right - is now a pub.

The large shingle bank on the southern side of the harbour, formerly part of the parish of Lancing, became part of Southwick in c1900.

Another highlight for children used to be the travelling fair which visited the Lickeys on bank holidays, occupying a site on the corner of Lickey Road and Leach Green Lane.

Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855. A little way beyond, set back from the road, is the Brown Cow.

Astwood Bank developed in linear fashion along the Ridgeway, which is now the main road to Pershore and Evesham.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

The rushes on the bank of the river were harvested for rush matting by the Arnold family; they were dried hanging over lines beside the river. On the other side is the Ferryboat Inn.

The factory on the right bank was turned into residential flats in the 1980s.

On the Buckinghamshire bank (since 1974 in Berkshire) Henry VI's great foundation, Eton College, has rendered this another 'company town'.

Today it is called The Bank inn. This district was known locally as The Hearts of Oak.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

The scene of Falstaff's miseries in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Datchet stands on the Thames bank, opposite Home Park.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

On the right is the Albany Hotel and the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.

The building withthe 'To Let' sign on the right was later replaced bu the Lutyens-designed Midland Bank headquarters.

Behind is the London to Bristol main line railway, and on top of the tree-clad river cliff bank is the Oxford Road.