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church of St John the Evangelist has a shingled broach spire; flint and stone are used for walling and buildings.A ferry with landing steps connected with a foot- path to Amberley on the opposite bank

This view shows a bustling mid-morning Lincoln; the florid Flemish-style bank on the left dating from the 1890s survives from this prosperous era.

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

Beyond, the grocer between the banks was now Singleton's. On the right, in front of the Toll Booth gable-end, is a weighbridge.

The chimneystacks of Lord Burley`s Hospital are an eye-catching feature along the south bank of the Welland.

The Natwest Bank and the Alliance and Leicester on the south side are the finest examples, with the flint-fronted No 30 and the brick HSBC Bank in Cornmarket almost as good.

Only by staying with the same employer was there any hope of security and a modest pension.The best positions were with banks and insurance offices.

Dumbell was a banker, a director of the Laxey mines and a Deemster (justice of the Tynwald), but the failure of his bank on Saturday 3rd February 1900 ('Black Saturday') was one of the greatest financial

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

An early omnibus collects passengers bound for Ware, Cheshunt, Broxbourne and Waltham Cross from outside Barclays Bank.

The long defunct Martins Bank echoes this period. In the centre stands Howell's 1930s extension - a stylish addition much lauded by architecture and design historians.

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

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.

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

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint.

The 17th-century Bull pub (centre left) is still there, as is the Town Hall, but two banks now stand along that side of the street.

Three boathouses existed along its banks, of which the chalet type, seen here, is the most interesting example.

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 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.