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The new lighthouse perches on the most prominent point, its powerful beam sweeping nightly across the dark sky and spilling its light over the walls of the parish church like a searchlight.

The landscape in this photograph gives the appearance of great antiquity, with low stone walls and irregularly-shaped fields where sheep graze.

Few who saw the film version of the latter will forget the scene where the enigmatic heroine, played by Meryl Streep, stood braving a storm at the end of the Cobb—Lyme's harbour wall.

Six uprights form the walls, and the massive capstone is 11 feet long.

The tower has been further reduced since 1951 to provide stone for garden walls.

Worcester was a walled city until the 18th century, and witnessed a great deal of conflict, particularly during the English Civil War.

Ulverston's railway station, dating from 1878, is below the wall to the left - this view was taken from the railway bridge.

The original plan for the docks involved building a wall across the mouth of Wallasey Pool to create a tidal dock, or float.

To the left can be seen the workings of the Honister Slate Quarry, which produced some of the finest-quality green slate roofing and walling.

The wall of the house on the right is smothered in trade posters and advertisements for the forthcoming attractions at the Empire Theatre.

The only casualty since 1899 is the wall on the right, sacrificed for road widening at the junction with Hardwick Road. Sellwoods on the left had only just been built.

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

The flint wall on the left, now dismantled, is probably marking the entrance to Keepers. In the 1950s, Seretse Khama of Basutoland spent his exile in Starrock Lane.

As to the rest of the photograph, the cottages are now one dwelling but even the boundary walls have changed little in over a century.

The timber work on the gable end of the building fronting the road remains the same, but the front wall is now all stone, giving the entire structure a much more medieval apperance.

We are looking north- eastwards from the Lower Walk, across mooring lines in the sand, at low water; sailing vessels are moored beside the Cobb Warehouses (right).

The castle comprised a gatehouse, round keep, curtain wall, two round turrets and five small turrets.

Note the drystone walls leading down to the river crossing.

Wharf Road is now a busy thoroughfare, the harbour wall a sturdy granite breakwater crowned with iron railings and tall street lamps.

They were rebuilt slowly from 1297 to 1430; their size was set by the larger-than-life Herbert de Losinga's Norman cloisters, whose outer walls survived the 1272 fire.

Though Penrith was sacked by the Scots in 1314 and 1345, the earliest fortifications were the town walls erected in c1346-47.

To the right behind the tree (now gone) is the wall to the churchyard.

Note the old 'school' traffic sign on the the recessed wall to the left. The symbol then was a flaming torch, its detail picked out with white reflectors.

ings in St John Street and Vineyard Street have been lost, this wonderful group of jet- tied buildings survives, clustering up to Schere Gate, possibly a medi- eval gate through the town wall