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Then, as now, sales and auctions were a popular attraction for holidaymakers, and in the Royal Hotel, a little further along the promenade, was the famous Craven's Sale Room.

The Royal Oak's appearance has altered little in the last seventy years, and it continues to provide old-fashioned hospitality in a modern age.

It was he who established the system of allowing Royal Navy sailors their twice-daily ration of grog - rum and water.

This scene has changed little in the past 50 years, apart from the Royal Oak (left) losing its hanging sign and side entrance in the 1980s after a couple of lorries demolished the porch!

The adjacent post office was erected in 1881, with statues of Industry, Electricity, Steam and Commerce standing below the Royal Arms.

The Royal George is still very much in business today.

Today, a short section behind the Theatre Royal is all that is left. Here the broad thoroughfare is thronged with carts, cabs and omnibuses.

The flagpole is not flying the Royal Standard, indicating that the Queen was away on this spring day. The Victoria Memorial was still a roundabout, which easily accomodated the light traffic.

Its quaint and gracious market-place hosts some Royal Mail and GPO vans, plus a selection of post-war cars.

The notable Victorian artist Hamilton Macallum settled in Beer, and exhibited many local scenes at the Royal Academy in London. A memorial to him can be found just above the beach.

Elizabeth I granted it a royal charter in 1561, at which time it was located in St Swithin's Street, only moving to its present location on Upper Tything in 1868.

Guthlac, a Mercian royal warrior, came here on St Bartholomew's Day 699, having entered the monastery at Repton. He said that he would found his hermitage wherever his boat landed among the swamps.

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.

Following a visit by Edward VII in 1902, the town styled itself 'Royal Ramsey', and why not? After all, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had also visited the town back in 1847.

The town's main hotel, the Royal George, is mentioned in Mrs Gaskell's novel 'Cranford'.

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

The sign outside shows HRH Frederick, Duke of York, who founded the Royal Military College in 1800.

Beyond is the Royal Oak Hotel, one of several old coaching inns that still stand in the town.

Many of its cottages were built in the 17th century, and the Royal Oak is older, claiming a date of about 1502. A famous treat, which is still sold today, was Granny's Nettle Beer.

Apart from earlier royal connections, the Queen's Armes buildings were for a time a school, run by the Congregational minister, the Rev Benjamin Jeanes.

A grand south entrance was provided via these ornate wrought-iron gates crowned by the royal cypher and the jubilee date, 6 May 1935.

Already busy with turnpike traffic, the railway's arrival encouraged more hotels, such as the Royal Station Hotel at the bottom of the street.

Overlooking it is the Royal Oak Hotel, one of several inns that did well on market days and served coach passengers travelling between Preston and Lancaster.

The nearby airfield was used in World War II for bombers and then for training, with the 39 Regiment of Royal Engineers stationed here from 1966 onwards.