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Needham, on the main road from Ipswich to Stowmarket, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

The name 'Barker Street' recalls the tanning industry that used to be important to Nantwich; the bark from oak trees was used in the tanning process.

It is certainly a very fine range, and one, the bookshop, has its framing decorated with bark panels.

The mature tree (left), a 200-year-old English elm, succumbed to fungal infection spread by bark beetles as Dutch Elm Disease ravaged the countryside in the early 1970s.

In 1854 the Hewitt and Short Blue fishing fleet moved from Barking to Gorleston.

All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.

All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.

Between periods of calm, Slaidburn once resounded with noise; above the bustle rose the ringing bark of the squire's favourite hound Bounty. The name of the inn had to change!

Moored between these gates is a sailing bark, and in the distance can be seen the East and West Piers.

The tree-bark ornamentation of the lintels and window-boxes is an unusual feature.

Needham, on the main road, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

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

The Market Place would have presented a colourful, bustling scene, loud with the cries of the market-traders, the rumble of cartwheels over cobbles, the barking of dogs and the shouts and laughter

Perhaps originally because of the ready availability locally of oak bark (which is rich in tannin, and produces the best quality leather, though slowly) the curing of leather kept many in work.

Frith's photographer swivelled his camera, while crossing the little River Pang which reaches the Thames here, and walked a few yards along the bank to capture this view back upstream towards the recently

The south bank always remained less formal than the north; it is a series of islands separated from the 'mainland' by a back river, which in its turn is separated by weirs from the north river.

Back in the 1950s it would have been quite normal for a bank to have a branch in a small village. Rationalisation has seen a good many of them close down.

We have our backs to the Red Lion, and are looking down the A257 Sandwich and Deal road, with Lloyds Bank clearly visible on the right.

The best house is on the right, slightly set back from the road and with a central niche containing an urn. Built about 1835, it became a bank, hence its current name 'The Old Bank House'.

Old Laleham stands back from the reaches of the Thames, and the early boating fraternity used to enjoy catching glimpses of it from the water.

Wribbenhall is situated on the opposite bank of the river to Bewdley, and architecturally its streets are far more interesting than Severnside.

Next door is Woolworths, and next but one is Westminster Bank at No 4. These three businesses are still in Petersfield at the same addresses.

Across the street is the entrance to Mercery Lane, with the overhanging beams of a former pilgrims' inn, the Chequer of Hope, which once stretched back to the Buttermarket.

The towpath on the right bank was used by the horses which once pulled the barges. Grappenhall has two of the characteristic narrow hump-backed bridges designed to carry road traffic over the canal.