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It is built in the form of a clover leaf, and below the walls is a Tudor block house.

The photographer is looking west along the High Street, past the Victorian primary school with its cluster of steep slated pyramidal roofs and the hall 'erected by General Bouverie for the use of the parish

Walls six feet thick protected the castle kitchens, built after 1413 to replace less grand facilities.

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.

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

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.

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

The churchyard consists of six terraces, each one characterised by a retaining wall. The church dates back to 1096; opposite it lies the picturesque 500-year-old Priest House.

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.

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.

Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'. The chancel arch, which we see here, is the narrowest in England at 3ft 6in.

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

Even though there are no leaves on the trees, Lord Street is still busy; as at Blackpool, trippers visit all year round.

So frantic has the traffic become, that the second thatched cottage was hit by a lorry twice in one year, losing the corner wall and its thatch.

It is the south gate in the medieval town walls; it is now almost lost amongst the later buildings that have since been attached to it.

This charming vignette seen through the old abbey ruins also manages to give us an insight into the sadly neglected state of this historic building with its grass-grown walls before it was taken over

The tall chimney next door rises above a bread oven, whose rounded shape protrudes from the wall of the house.

The story has probably arisen because the inn sits over the former ditch that would have surrounded the town walls immediately behind it.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

High walls enclose the water channel, for although the village lies some seven miles from the coast, it is barely above sea-level: the houses lining the river bank have been flooded many times over

The last incumbent, Thomas King, served for 41 years, a duty commemorated by a plaque on the garden wall.

High on the wall in the centre is the sign for the Redcar Literary Institute – the annual subscription was 10s. Clothing styles have changed - no anoraks and trainers here!

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