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The wall of the cloisters, a feature of monastic buildings, can be seen on the right of the picture, although no monks ever dwelled within these!

The High Street Gate (sometimes called the North Gate) is still closed every evening, a practice that has continued since about 1340AD when the wall surrounding the cathedral was completed, thus

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

All that is left today is a tantalising ruin in the grounds of Walsingham Abbey, with fragments of wall and window and two old wishing wells.

There is now a two ft high brick wall along the track.

The Tower was a popular Victorian tourist attraction, but it was less spruce than it is today: ivy was allowed to grow on the walls, and signage was minimal.

Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'.

In the background the Wharf wall has been built all along the harbour from the West Pier.

It still looks the same as in this photograph, apart from a fresh white coat of paint and a new pub sign hanging from the wrought iron wall bracket.

All along the coastal belt, but rarely extending more than a few miles inland, rounded beach flints or cobbles were used for walls and every type of building.

The churchyard consists of six terraces, each one characterised by a retaining wall.

The adjoining walls and buildings were subse- quently destroyed so that traffic bypassed the gate.

A raised sea wall now protects the land behind from encroachment by the sea, but is being used as a backrest by some of the holidaymakers.

Two miles west of Margate, Westgate on Sea has two bays; sea walls built along the curves of the bays form two promenades with steps down to the beach, and gardens are laid out for the benefit of visitors

It once had some fine painted decoration on the interior walls - an example survives in an attic room.

The flint-walled boatshed on the left is now obscured by a gift shop/information centre.

Boats are drawn up on the beach under the walls of the fishing township, and their nets are drying on the rails beside the slipways.

Beyond the high brick wall with its iron restraints, a very good array of Georgian houses lead the eye into the market place and on to St Dionysius Church.

If these great walls had ears, they had undoubtedly heard it all before.

The fine vaulted roof is clearly visible, as is the leaning north wall of the nave, sloping outward as it rises.

It had undergone a number of incarnations since the Bard's day, but the timber framework, the floors and some of the internal walls are as they were in the 16th century.

It had undergone a number of incarnations since the Bard's day, but the timber framework, the floors and some of the internal walls are as they were in the 16th century.

In this photograph the cottages had only recently had their thatch replaced and the wall, next to the woman with the dog, rebuilt.

This tower was built in 1322 as an outwork to the tower on the north-west corner of the wall.