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The front of the National Provincial Bank, now the National Westminster, has barely changed since 1960. Even the arched entrance on the corner remains the same.

Two of the older properties here - Lloyds Bank and the building beyond it (centre right) - still stand. St George's United Reformed Church stands behind the photographer.

This row of quite modern-looking cottages at Bank Top, lying behind a neatly cultivated garden plot was, in fact, built in 1833.

About twenty-five miles downstream from its source we reach the stone-built town of Lechlade on the Gloucestershire bank of the Thames. The Ha'penny Bridge was built in 1792 to replace a ferry.

Here we see the south side of Wimborne's square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town.

The hillside town of Ruthin retains its medieval origins, although the aggressively black and white mock-Tudor half-timbering of the bank and outfitters' buildings on the left is perhaps a little over

Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town.

Bank Street is set back from the front and meets Fore Street at the town square.

The Midland Bank beyond it is now HSBC and the cycle shop opposite is now the offices for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.

Set on the banks of the River Yare, Cantley is dominated by its sugar refinery, which was built to process local beet.

The timbered building on the left, occupied at the time by Barclays Bank, was originally built with plastered upper walls and gables, later exposed to give the building a mock Tudor flavour.

The Rose & Crown, on the right, is still running, as is the bank next door. The colonnaded building to the right of the inn houses the school bookshop.

A farm trap and a carriage with a liveried coachman make their way along George Street past the imposing façade of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, on the left, and the Brooklyn Cycle Depot across

The arrival of the railway in 1867, and the 1872 National Bank Holiday Act, opened Walton up to everybody.

It is thought that one or two stock-rearing families lived here, with banks and ditches across the neck of the promontory.

They halted on the banks of the Exe in about 50AD and founded the town of Isca. The West Country see was transferred to the safety of the Exeter city walls in 1049.

There is a similar walk on the north bank, and on summer evenings there are many pleasure boats on the water. This picture was obviously not a summer evening!

Its only clock dial faces Albert Hall's grocer's and draper's shop (left), now Bank House Stores. The house on the corner of Chapel Street (centre) now has a porch in the second bay.

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.

With the Mumbles Railway carrying as many as 40,000 passengers on a bank holiday, the village prospered. The name 'Mumbles' actually derives from the French 'mamelles', meaning 'breasts'.

Seen here from the south, across the bank of the small stream which flows through the village, the pale sandstone outline of St George's Church stands proudly in its churchyard.

This view is taken from the sandy Roman Bank path looking to Chapel Point.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

We are now on the north or Essex bank of the Thames Estuary. This rather quaint view shows the then 'up to the minute' toll booths of the newly-opened Dartford Tunnel.