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

The London and Provincial Bank on the corner of Market Street (left) opened in 1898, and is still and impressive structure. Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way.

This occasion in the photograph is probably the Riding Horse Parade on August Bank Holiday Monday.

The rain appears to have just stopped, which may be good news, as a poster on the right indicates that a bank holiday is pending.

The river banks are still just as popular today, as is 'messing around in boats'. This boomed from the late 19th century onwards, as increased leisure time reached the lower middle classes.

The river basks in afternoon sunshine, with swans and a hired rowing boat on the water.

The River 1903 Amid a grove of tall poplars on the banks of the River Stort are the weather- boarded malting mills, which helped to lay the foundation of the town's prosperity following the passing

During the Civil War it was held for the King by the brave Lady Bankes; the castle proved impregnable until a member of the garrison turned traitor. The castle was blown up with gunpowder in 1646.

Sussex beaches are mostly shingle above high water mark, so it is understandable that the two miles of golden sand between the mouth of the River Rother and the shingle banks of Dungeness should develop

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

All to the left on the north bank, apart from the grand pedimented and columned Fishmongers Hall of 1831 near the bridge, has now gone.

The lorry and tractor are parked casually – perhaps the owners are drinking at the Chequers, or visiting Lloyds Bank (left); a postman is delivering letters (right).

Similarly, there is no indication of industrial activity; until the 19th century, this was a dominant feature of Staveley, with bobbin and other mills lining the banks of the River Kent.

In the foreground a man rows his dinghy, and on the bank another prepares to board his boat, assisted by another man steadying it.

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

On the left is Lloyds Bank, Jenner's Garage, the Smugglers Café and, most important, a fish and chip shop.

On the far bank a salmon ladder can just be seen; these were built into many of the big weirs to give migrating salmon a better chance of reaching the spawning grounds upstream.

Barclays Bank no longer use the premises, and the building has become a restaurant.

The thatched extension at this end of the medieval High Bank has since been demolished. The street is now a cul-de-sac, following the opening of the by-pass in the 1980s.

On the right are the Ideal Fish Restaurant, Lloyds Bank and Joy's fashions. Ahead in Old Market is the roof of Walkers the grocer's, now the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

Next to Westminster Bank, Marsh`s cards and artists` shop arrived in 1925.

The Thames is crowded with all sorts of small craft; it is probably a bank holiday. Both shores are packed with people enjoying the sunshine.

Today South Street contains building societies, banks, opticians, mobile 'phone stores and gift shops.