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Up the road on the right beyond the pub now stand Crouch's garage, the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Kent House and the Ashford bowling alley.

The Royal Edward dock had a water area of 25 acres and a graving dock 875ft in length.

This was financed by John Passmore Edwards, who also gave an endowment fund entrusted to the governors of the Royal Cornwall Infirmary in Truro.

This was the Royal Mail Steamer plying to the Isle of Man; it had just left the quay at Belfast at 4pm.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

There was once a royal hunting forest next to Whitewell, and that brought in the aristocracy of past times.

The royal coach heads out across the courtyard of the Palace bound for The Mall. A throng of carriages waits to join the procession across London.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

In the centre of the picture is St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal parish church, photographed at the time when Dick Sheppard was the vicar.

The offices of Royal London Insurance were once J W Evans' The Swansea Milliner; the building is now a Pizza Express. Note the R E Jones Castle Cafe‚ with its shilling lunches.

It was renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961. In 1986, a second theatre, the Swan, was created in the remains of the 1879 building, as seen in this picture.

The adjacent Royal Engineers Museum contains many Gordon relics, including the folding chair he used at Khartoum, and a yellow jacket given to him by the Emperor of China.

In the background is the Royal Arms Hotel. The house at the end of the bridge is now painted cream, giving a lift to this view of the village.

The area now called Ottershaw was once a royal hunting ground within Windsor Forest.

The architect who designed it, G E Bond, also built the Grade II listed Chatham Theatre Royal in Manor Road in 1899.

Since then it has served as an inn, a grocer's shop, a chemist's, a tea room, a community centre and a royal bailiff's residence. It is the parish office today, and is in need of some restoration.

Another royal connection is that Charles I is said to have stayed here at the time of the Battle of Naseby.

The choosing of the site was deliberate: here was the royal hall of Llywelyn the Great (demolished 1316) and the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary where he lay buried.

Around the beginning of the 20th century there was little difference in the cost of accommodation at either the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, or the Royal, though eating at the latter was slightly

King Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the course; he was often seen in the Royal Box at the western end of the new grandstand, which was built by 1904.

The Lickey Hills were declared a royal hunting forest in the 11th century, but they were sold by the Crown to the Earl of Plymouth in 1682.

We can see the Theatre Royal below Godsell & Sons, but not in the 1923 photograph.

The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey

The home was handed over to the Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association in 1953, who modernised it. It is now run as a charitable senior citizens' residence.