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We can just see the river channel out on Morecambe Bay. The routes across the sands from Hest Bank and Arnside come here to Kents Bank.

All those families moving into Astwood Bank`s new houses in the 1960s needed facilities, and the community does have a fair range.

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around

This photograph of Roebuck Ferry House is a reminder of the days when an un-accommodating landowner refused access to the Berkshire bank of the Thames.

The area between the south bank of the Tyne and the north bank of the Wear was transformed during the 19th century as coal mines opened and communities grew around them.

Standing on the bank of the Great Ouse about a mile from the centre of Kempston, the parish church is a stone building wherein the tower, at least, is Norman in origin.

More cars on the cobbles are noticeable now. The impressive edifice of the Midland Bank, number 12 Westgate, is second from the left.

In the 1780s, Leamington was little more than a village with a population of around 300 people.

In the 1780s, Leamington was little more than a village with a population of around 300 people.

Here, the excellent footpath on the west bank of the river can be seen.

This view of the bridge was taken from the west bank, nearest Bakewell. Towards the far bank, the river is full of mallards, all demanding a sandwich with menaces.

Work started on the Oldham Joint Stock Bank (now the HSBC), on the right, in 1892, and it was officially opened on 30 September 1895.

This view, from the end of a path leading past the Brownlow Arms to the west bank of the Trent, looks across the tidal river from Nottinghamshire to South Clifton in Lincolnshire.

Polesworth has developed on both sides of the River Anker, with the original Saxon settlement on the north bank.

In 1757 a weir and a lock were built to accommodate the river traffic.

From the town bridge, we can see the sluice gates in a lowered position. The buildings behind were attached to the rear of the mill and also contained stabling.

The two impressive buildings to the right now house the Natwest Bank, previously the National Provincial and originally the Northamptonshire Union Bank.

New villas sprang up along the front at Kents Bank on the Kent Estuary as the village became popular as a holiday resort.

By the 1950s, it was becoming apparent that Chelmsford had a traffic problem: these Ford Consuls and Austin A35s, among others, had seen to that.

This photograph shows the village of Streatley on the left bank of the Thames. An old wooden bridge linked the village with Goring on the opposite bank until it was replaced in the 1920s.

Banks abound in Granby Street: the Italianate National Westminster of 1869, the Midland, a Gothic creation with its French pavilion roof, and the Yorkshire Penny Bank opposite the Grand Hotel is probably

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

This view looks along Station Road at its junction with Westminster Road (on the left) and Meadow Lane. The Westminster Bank building (left) still stands, but it is now occupied by a bookmaker's.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest