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Overlooking the Clyde to the north of the present town of Bothwell, the castle is still an impressive sight despite being a ruin.

Bothwell is acknowledged as one of the finest examples of secular architecture in Scotland, though it was never completed to its original design.

Three hundred years ago, Bothwell was a strategically important village, its bridge being the only one over the Clyde apart from Glasgow Bridge.

Frinton's development as a resort began as late as 1885, by which time Walton and Clacton were both well-established.

It differs from the earlier great castles such as Kildrummy and Bothwell in that the living apartments are incorporated into the gatehouse.

It differs from the earlier great castles such as Kildrummy and Bothwell, in that the domestic apartments are incorporated into the gatehouse.

Bothwell was taken and retaken a number of times; in 1298-99 it was under siege for fourteen months before the Scots managed to take it, only to lose it again in 1301.

The premises of the Rothwell Co-operative Society has changed to an Indian restaurant, and the building to the left of it has gone and been replaced by a chemist's shop.

The events prompted the bucolic rhyme “Chelmsford church and Writtle steeple both fell down, but killed no people”.

Barn End is a timber-framed cruck house (made from trees split and shaped to form the frame for both wall and roof of a building) and is thought to be the oldest in the village.

Both were added to a 15th-century structure.

A west gallery was added in 1693 and a gallery on the south side in 1698, but both were removed in 1855.

Both were restored in the early 1970s.

Rothwell's history dates back to long before the Danish invasion of the Dark Ages. 4,000 years ago Bronze Age settlers came to this area, followed by the Romans.

The Rothwell Industrial Co-operative Society on the right has become the Co-op supermarket, and the Blue Bell is now simply called The Pub.

Both were purchased by Tony Green in 1971, who in 1975 sold the store to Stowmarket Co-op.

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph.

We are looking at the area that was between West End and Central Piers just before they both fell foul of the weather.

Both were iron-hulled cargo boats of less than 300 grt, built in the early 1870s by J & W Dudgeon, Cubitts Town, London, for the LC&DR to operate a six-days-a-week service between Dover and Calais.

But it does bear the same date - 1577 - so perhaps both were part of the same building.

There was John Lewis Jacquet, the postmaster, who soldiered on at his work until he was 79, or Thomas Butcher, the auctioneer, who had cried the lots at the Spread Eagle; both were the sons of

'Antelope' had been sold in 1913, but by March 1920 the surviving sisters were back on station for the GWR, though both were used for cargo runs only.