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Caption For Gilsland, Roman Wall 1924

Gilsland Wall is in fact part of Hadrian's Wall.

Caption For Gilsland, Roman Wall 1924

Gilsland Wall is in fact part of Hadrian's Wall.

Caption For Ferring, Greystoke Manor Hotel C1960

This hotel near the sea front has brick walls with flint gables and garden walling.

Caption For Southampton, The Old Town Walls 1892

Southampton's walls and defences were built from stone brought across from the Isle of Wight.This must have been a huge operation, considering that there were one and a quarter miles of walls, seven

Caption For York, Monk Bar C1955

Monk Bar is one of the finest gates in the city walls and the closest to the Minster on Goodramgate.

Caption For York, The Station And The Hotel 1907

To the left of York's city wall stands the station opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1877.

Caption For Lytham, The Northern Lantern Hotel C1960

The hotel was built on Clifton Estate land, partly surrounded with stretches of the traditional Fylde cobbled walls of which Lytham still possesses some fine examples.

Caption For Conwy, The Smallest House In Great Britain 1933

This curious little extension to one of the town wall towers is even more interesting because of the modern and incongruous-looking brick wall that looks as if it has just been built.

Caption For York, Monk Bar C1955

Monk Bar on Goodramgate is one of the finest gates in the York city walls, and the closest to York Minster.

Caption For Bakewell, The Square C1955

The trained creeper on the hotel wall, only partly grown in photograph number B6003, has now developed along the front wall.

Caption For Old Sarum, Garderobe Pits And Great Tower Foundations 1913

The garderobe pits—the medieval toilets—are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

Caption For Southampton, Above Bar 1900

There were originally seven gates into Southampton's old walled town.

Caption For Southampton, Above Bar 1900

This picture shows Bargate facing south.There were once seven gates into Southampton's old walled town.Walk the walls today and only five can be seen.

Caption For Old Sarum, Castle

The garderobe pits - the medieval toilets - are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

Caption For Hawkshead, Village Post Office 1896

The grey slate walls of the buildings and cobbled streets are typical of many Lakeland villages.

Caption For Buckden, Old Forge And George Hotel C1950

We can just see the forge bellows inside the low brick wall.

Caption For Chester, King Charles I Tower 1888

Built of red sandstone, the city walls form a circuit of two miles around the old city.

Caption For York, Station And Hotel 1909

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls.

Caption For Caernarfon, Town Walls 1906

Simultaneous construction of the castle and town wall began in the summer of 1283.

Caption For Flint, Castle C1950

The south-east tower, or donjon, had walls 23 ft thick and was separated from the wall of the inner ward by its own moat and drawbridge.