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On the left, the library has become the health centre, and the ex-servicemen`s club is closed, but Lloyds Bank is still open.

One of Windsor's most famous view shows the town's bridge in the distance, which was erected in 1822.

On the left are Harry Webber, hairdresser, in the former Oakes Bank of 1885, the International Stores (Frederick Riches was manager), who traded here from 1909 to 1976, and Eccleston's, draper and grocers

The flower gardens have been replaced by a one-way system. The Castle Hotel once stood on the left-hand side, but today there is a National Westminster Bank on this corner.

Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.

Kingsdown stands on the coast where the white cliffs of Dover give way to the extensive shingle beach that runs eastwards to Walmer & Deal. Caesar is said to have landed in this vicinity in 55BC.

Named after the field on which it was built, Leys Avenue was, even in 1960, a busy shopping thoroughfare.

Opposite Foale's butchery was the Naval Bank, which eventually became Maypole Corner with its glitzy gilt and glass signboard.

This marvellous scene shows a Wrexham that has since lost some of its unified Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes with its banks and traditional shop fronts.

The popular Complete Angler Hotel lies on the Berkshire bank and looks out across the Thames to Marlow.

Further development southwards was held up and the architectural variety shows this.

The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond

We are looking from the Beacon Hill area.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

The International Stores (right) has had a shop here since c1900, but by 1986 it had become Gateway.

The hatted ladies are leaving the Suspension Bridge on the north bank, the Embankment Gardens side: casual wear in the 1920s was somewhat more formal than today.

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.

This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to

Also built during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year was Frederick Wheeler's proud bank, now the Nat West, in Queen Anne style in plum brick and with extensive Bath stone dressings.

General Wolfe spent his childhood in Quebec House and is said to have passed his last night in his beloved town at the George and Dragon, shown here in the foreground.

South-east of the village, a lane crosses the county boundary with Bedfordshire along the upper reaches of the young River Ouzel.

On the left is the jettied former Guildhall. At this end was Mark Ellis the tailor, later Fleming's Antiques; at the other end Barclays Bank.

The dog was Black Shuck, who supposedly attacked worshippers at church here and at Blythburgh in 1557.