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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.

Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.

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

Back into town, this view from Orange Grove looks along past Brydon's Municipal Buildings of 1893, 'rendered necessary by the large increase of public business since the erection of the central building

On the Windsor bank the non-Etonian spectators watch the Procession of College Boats. In the distance, lined with spectators, is the bridge, nowadays pedestrianised.

This shows the view looking back down High Street towards Boutport Street at the bottom. Butchers Row is on the left. The Sydney Harper building is now a travel agent.

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

Here we move back to the west of the High Street. This view looks along Cheam Road, with the Cheam Road Hall on the right.

We are looking back up the lane with the river behind us. On the right is part of the George Hotel, as it was then.

The ability to promenade from one bank to the other via this bridge was further enhanced with the opening in 2000 of another, known as the Butterfly Bridge.

Did they ever collect their pocket money from the Westminster Bank (right)?

There were six fords over the river Wyre: one was at Buck's Lane, Little Thornton, leading to Hambleton and Banks Farm.

On the far bank is an attractive thatched waterside summer-house which also acts as a boathouse.

This water-mill, powered by a hidden undershot wheel, stands on the bank of the river Bure, and is built of entirely of wood. There are two large millstones leaning on the small annexe.

Their natural curiosity led them to their death at the end of the funnel-like decoy pipe, whose entrance is to the right of the boathouse on the opposite bank.

The Red Lion public house and the National Westminster Bank in the centre of the picture are still there, but Burgon's grocery store (right) is long gone.

This summer recreation corner on the banks of the Wharfe lay below the present Collingham Wood House on the Wetherby road.

Stone-built weavers' houses, carpet weaving mills, and rope works all jostled for space along the banks of the river.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

Opposite, two three-storey Georgian town houses (now the Job Centre and the Conservative Club) belonged 200 years ago to the Fryer family, founders of the Wilts and Dorset Bank and suppliers to the

The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.

The struggle to drain the fen and maintain the banks of the rivers and lodes was endless. Celia Fiennes crossed the fens in 1695, and noted that the fens around Sutton were mostly under water.

The owners of these parked cars must be shopping. The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint.