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The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

The civil engineers of the future concentrate on their construction work, while a budding mountaineer attempts a climb of the stone wall (left).

Here inmates of Pegwell's Working Men's Convalescent Home stroll with their families.The home was noted for its sunken garden on reclaimed land, seen on the left below the sea wall.

A nice link with the past is this photograph of the Spa post office complete with stamp machine and wall post box.

Children walk along the road with their mother.

half-timbered gatehouse of the Hospital of St John, founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1084 and the second oldest medieval almshouse in England, which stands in Northgate Street, outside the original city walls

Apart from a reinforced sea wall, this view of Marine Parade is little changed today.

The photograph shows a typical shingle beach of large flint pebbles, wooden groyne sea defences and a concrete sea wall.

The white-walled bungalow in the foreground looks a little incongruous in this view of the centre of Hutton, which shows the bridge over the River Leven in the background.

All of the buildings lying downhill from where the mats are drying on the wall were demolished in the 1920s and 1930s.

A substantial stone building of pleasing proportions, with a matching boundary wall, St Mary's Church was built in 1892 and stands on the High Street.

The pond is in central Ewell; the wall separates it from the grounds of Bourne Hall on the right.

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

This is not a beautiful scene, but some effort has been put into designing the brick boundary wall, flagpoles and railings.

Roofs fell in, walls collapsed through the weight of smothering ivy, and congregations declined.

Sidmouth's sea wall was first built in the 1830s, though attempts to create a satisfactory harbour failed.

The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.

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.

It is interesting to read the prices advertised beneath the Wall's ice cream 'Stop here and Buy Some' sign outside the café.

The small boy on the left is leaning against the wall which formerly enclosed three acres of grounds belonging to the White Hart Hotel, but now occupied by a nondescript block of shops and offices.

Note the dry stone wall in the foreground.

This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.

But the writing was certainly on the wall, judging from this jam-packed car park.

A more modern view of St Ives, with flower boxes gracing the windows of the houses and with smart whitewashed walls.