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Lytham's premier hotel has a history dating back over 300 years.

In those days this was frontier country, for though William the Conqueror had won at Hastings, anti-Norman feelings in the North were high and the possibility of a Danish-backed rebellion was never far

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

Despite its moderately tumble-down appearance, The Porch is now a bank.

Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of

Looking east, the steep bank has a low covering of bushes which obscure the views if allowed to grow up, and in 2004 a lot of clearing work was done.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Very much a village pub, the Swan has a beer garden at the back to cater for the local populace, who number around 500, and visitors who come this way to walk round this quiet spot.

Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

The two buildings to the left are banks, with the modern Whitehall Theatre between the two.

The architect was Sir Edwin Cooper, who looked back to the pre-Great War Edwardian era.

On the opposite corner from the Yorkshire Bank was Redman's the grocer's (centre right), beloved by local housewives for their selection and good value.

It is still possible to walk along the banks of the local waterways, just as these Edwardian children did nearly a century ago.

The headquarters of the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank, on the edge of the North York Moors high above the Vale of York with views to the distant Pennines, must be one of the most spectacular in

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

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.

The houses on the right back onto the Ouse.

Moored alongside the far bank in this photograph is a floating tea room; the rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well, a popular tourist attraction.

The Westminster Bank (third building in from either side of the picture) seems busy enough, judging by the cars parked outside.

By the banks of the Dee.

A man sits on the bank with his granddaughter enjoying the tranquillity.