A walk around a rainy Sherborne in Dorset.

This was the Sunday that had heavy rain at the end of April 2012.

A few days after my visit The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the town as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visits to towns and cities around the country.

Sherborne was the nearest town to our holiday cottage in Dorset.

Sherborne is an abbey town.

On Long Street in Sherborne is Harry Fort Insurance Brokers. Location of a bronze plaque, marking the site of the Sherborne & Dorsetshire Bank cicra 1750.

It wa amalgamated into the National Provincial Bank around 1843.

<a href="http://www.harryfort.co.uk/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.harryfort.co.uk/</a>

At Pretors Office.

Was run by Simon Pretor in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Is Grade II listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-104047-premises-occupied-by-the-national-westmi" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Premises Occupied by the National Westminster Bank, Sherborne</a>

LONG STREET 1. 1625 (South-East Side) Premises occupied by The National Westminster Bank ST 6316 1/152 28.11.50. II GV 2. This building and Old Bank House (adjoining on left hand) originally one block of C16 to early C17 structure; the frontage to both is in early C19 Gothic-Revival style. Stucco front with 3 layers of stucco front with pebble-dash plinth and pierced parapet with Gothic arcading. On first floor, small window of 2-lights and four-centred heads. Right hand ground floor window later; of 5-lights in 3 tiers; hoodmould over. Doorway has 4-centred moulded arch with carving in spandrels and hoodmould. Recesses for scrapers. A stone mullioned window at the back appears to be part of the original ancient structure.

Premises occupied by Mr Pearson, Rose Cottage, former Castle Hotel, The Bank House, premises occupied by The National Westminster Bank, Old Bank House, and Abbot's Litten form a group with the timber framed structure to the rear of No 87 Cheap Street.