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Standing above the east bank of the river Stour, Wye was a royal manor before the Norman Conquest, and was given by William I to Battle Abbey in Susses.

The parish church of St James stands inside a banked enclosure that was once the Bishop of Lincoln's manor. From here his estate of four nearby parishes was managed for more than five hundred years.

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).

The vegetation on the far bank has now grown to fill the open spaces shown here, giving the whole site an impression of being far removed from the centre of a busy and thriving town.

More recently it was a retirement home for servants of the Bankes family, owners of the Kingston Lacy Estate until 1981. The 14 almshouses date from the 16th-19th centuries.

The bank in the centre had become Martin`s, with the building still largely the same as when it was built.

This view was taken from immediately by Burford Bridge, in the public park on the Oxfordshire bank.

The site is now an office complex for Lloyds Bank.

In the centre is the Royal Oak Hotel and the Wilts and Dorset Bank. Next door (right) Charles Edward Bazley offers Humber and Swift bicycles.

The warehouses of Boston have suffered in recent years; the ones on the right on the opposite bank have been converted into flats, but the distant one has been, like so many of its companions, demolished

In this view, the photographer looks south-east back past the corner of High Street to St John's Street and St John's 15th-century west tower. To the left is St Mary's Church spire.

very attractive fountain is evidently the centrepiece of an ornamental and floral display on this occasion, and a panel of flowers in the background marks a centenary in which the large cross on the bank

The main change that immediately strikes the visitor today is that the lovely old Victorian Barclays Bank building (right) has gone, to be replaced by yet another typical 1960s monstrosity.

The painted corner building has a superb Art Nouveau stone bank façade, designed by Frederick Wheeler in 1902; it is now a pub, called The Cock and Bull.

In the early 1960s the Westminster Bank took over the premises, and it is now occupied by Goughs the solicitors.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

The clock (which dates from 1845) is set on the top of Ulverston Savings Bank; it was built in 1838.

Pooles, the tobacconist and newsagent with its Swan Vestas advertisement, occupied the site of the original Gotch Bank.

On the right is another relic of the old high street - the National Provincial Bank.

Out of shot to the left is a very pretty bank building in the same, but rather more luxurious, style.

The Wilts and Dorset Bank on the left, now the Natwest, was almost new when the picture was taken. It had entrances in both George Street and Russell Street.

The Westminster Bank on the left, a competent neo-Georgian building, is now Nationwide. To its right is Cameo House, a colourful and ornate late Victorian refronting, dated 1890, of an earlier house.

Next door, behind the clock, are the Ashford Co-op Society stores, with the Westminster Bank beyond. The white building (centre right) is Alfred Olby, a builders' merchant's.

The flour and malting mills on the far bank dominate this peaceful riverside scene.