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The tall buildings behind the lamp post, one with a sign for the Club and Literary Institute and built as a temperance hotel the other a bank dated 1898, flanked the entrance to Station Road.

Situated on the north bank of the Medway, the original motte and bailey castle was replaced with stone by the early 13th century, when the shell keep was built.

This is a quiet town on the south bank of the River Stour, at the point where it begins to widen into the estuary.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

Its first house, Green Bank, is bigger than the rest and has a bay window, being built for a mill manager or the owner of the row.

This illustrious and sublime town is on the east bank of the River Ouse, two miles from the Wash.

Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.

The boy is lying on the grassy riverside bank known as the Batts.

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors. The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

There is a blue plaque on the 1775 town house of Sir Joseph Banks (right).

On the extreme left are the premises of the Trustee Savings Bank - it moved across the road later in the 1960s.

The main building, designed by G W Smith, has now been converted reasonably sympathetically into a pub, and the miniature railway which skirted the water's edge on the opposite bank remains as something

Standing on rising ground on the west bank of the River Gwendraeth, Kidwelly and its fortified town were founded by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury during the reign of Henry I.

Lying peacefully on the banks of the Ure, the land was given to the monks by Conan, son of Alan the Red, who built Richmond Castle.

To the left, at the junction of Cornhill and the Old Market, can be seen the Midland Bank which was built in 1921.

In the 1920s the building received a stone ground floor and became the Midland Bank.

Holme is a hamlet on the east bank of the Trent slightly north of Winthorpe. The church was rebuilt in 1485 by John Barton of Calais.

Set on the banks of the River Lochy, it is one of Scotland's earliest stone castles, and it was here in February 1645, after a forced march across difficult terrain in appalling weather, that the Marquis

A Ship Canal Pleasure Steamer Company was formed, and weekends and Bank Holidays would see two or three of these paddle steamers taking passengers on sight-seeing trips up and down the canal.

The famous spring was discovered on the banks of the Wharfe by labourer John Shires on 4 June 1744. From then on, interest grew in visiting the town for its noted health benefits.

This photograph has been taken from the left bank of the River Itchen, and the photographer appears to have been standing on a spot where there was once a ford - children played there even after the bridge

About half a mile south of the village of Blencow is the house known as Ennim Bank. The name derives from 'innam', meaning a piece of land which was enclosed or taken in.

This interesting house was built on the north bank of the Ure in 1459 for the Metcalfes, an influential Wensleydale family. Thomas Metcalfe was Privy Councillor to the Duchy of Lancaster.

The struggle to drain the fen and maintain the banks of the rivers and lodes was endless. The parish church of St Andrew must be the most beautiful of all the fenland churches.