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Westgate offers some idea of what it would have been like to live beside the city walls.

A cannonball fired from here struck the north wall of Christ Church, where Charles I and his court were staying at the time.

In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

Note how the cobbled pavement beside the churchyard wall on the left contrasts with the more modern kerbed paving across the road.

This is 'new' Dawlish, built after a replacement sea wall had allowed the shoreside area to be reclaimed from the sea.

The overgrown remains of St Boltolph's Priory, a Norman church standing outside the old Roman walls of Colchester.

The waterwheel housing can be seen on the left wall of the mill.

The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

A new sign has now replaced the harrow on the end wall of the pub.

It can just be seen on the west wall of the tower, through the branches of the tree.

The Gaiety Girl figure became an iconof the 1890-1900 decade, which was called both the Naughty Nineties and the Gay Nineties after the rumbustious music hall shows and the Paris-style chorus girls.

Nearby is the garage selling Cleveland petrol, and a child sits on the wall of Castle Green.

We can see it in this photograph, down near the high wall, centre right.

Now the paths are laid out, together with benches alongside them; retaining walls have been built; and gas lamps installed.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

His famous painting 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' features the sea wall across the road from where Millais stayed.

Fashions have altered more than somewhat, and the outer wall of the Peacock looks much the worse for wear.

A brass of a 14in figure to Elizabeth Prout, 1440, is in the chancel north wall.

Note the sign on the wall: 'Tickets to view the church and hospital can be obtained here - Sundays excepting'.

A paddle steamer lies moored at the harbour wall.

military origins, the outline of the fort succeeds in making a dramatic statement on the skyline of the common; it serves to highlight the domestic scene below, where each house has its walled

On the right the low wall is in front of the Congregational church, now demolished.

St Peter's was dedicated in 1318 by Bishop Stapledon; by 1860 it had fallen into a ruinous state, with bulging walls and sinking roofs.