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A neighbouring Freshfield Club existed until World War II, when the land was requisitioned as a Royal Air Force station and the clubhouse became the Officers mess.

The Belgrave was built in 1884 on Wilder Road by W M Robbins, who also designed the Royal Clarence Hotel and some villas in Torrs Park.

Gone from here are the men, horses, buildings and stables of the Royal Dragoon Guards.The site is now the Divisional Headquarters of the North Yorkshire Police.

It was once the home of the Duke of Connaught, before being used by the Royal Army Chaplains Department.

It is a monument to John Barrow, one-time Secretary of the Admiralty and a great traveller, who founded the Royal Geographical Society in 1830.

By the age of 21 he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a pioneer in the science of anaesthetics, but although he tried to publicise his work, no-one then was interested.

The small market on the left is a relic of the town's original Royal Charter.

Smartly-dressed holidaymakers are wandering up the slope from the Promenade, perhaps to take a genteel cup of tea at the Royal Hotel. Its elegant balconies will ensure airy views of the sea.

Near here, members of the royal family would stay during and after the reign of George III. In the far distance is the spire of St. John's church, a very prominent landmark from out at sea.

During the First World War, St Mildred's Bay was taken over as a Royal Naval Air Service Station, with a tented camp set up on the grassy promenade.

To the left is the back of the Union Club, which at that time was occupied by the Royal Collage of Physicians.

It is reputed that the Miller of Mansfield, seen on the left, got its name from a story concerning a miller who, when entertaining King Henry II, presented him with a pie filled with royal deer that had

In the reign of Elizabeth I, a Royal Charter converted it into Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School.

Built in 1826 to designs of Samuel Beazley, the architect of the Theatre Royal in Dublin, they were needlessly demolished by the Council in 1947.

The wheeled cart in the centre of the picture bears the crest of the Royal Mail.

The Royal Corporation Hotel not only provided refreshments and accommodation, but it also produced the essential change of horses for the fast-running services.

Born in Bury in 1840, Walter was appointed to the surgical staff of Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1873 and went on to become one of the most brilliant surgeons of his time.

Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.

Beyond Victoria Tower is the great royal abbey, Westminster Abbey, with its pair of west towers and the centrepiece of the medieval palace, along with Westminster Hall.

Beyond Victoria Tower is the great royal abbey, Westminster Abbey, with its pair of west towers and the centrepiece of the medieval palace, along with Westminster Hall.

Burton was an estate village, owned by the Pitt-Rivers family of Hinton St Mary and Tollard Royal, until its sale in 1958.

Colaton dates from at least Saxon times, and it was a royal manor at the time of the Domesday Book.

In the central High Street stands the Prince of Wales (left), which features the royal plume of feathers on its sign - Duchy of Cornwall lands stretch westwards around Dorchester.

Henry I gave the village and living of Burton Bradstock to the great Normandy abbey at Caen in exchange for the royal regalia of William the Conqueror, which the monks claimed had been gifted to them by