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Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

Highly-coloured and gilded walls and ceilings, tiled floors and exotic wood help to make it a romantic Victorian fantasy.

It is interesting to read the prices advertised beneath the Wall's ice cream 'Stop here and Buy Some' sign outside the café.

The poster on the wall by the tree advertises shipping to Canada and the United States, popular destinations for Cornish people forced to emigrate when the mining industry declined in the later 19th Century

Severe weather conditions were still causing problems here at this time, but in 1970 a sea wall was built that will protect the village in the future.

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

The clay, dug out close by, and generally leaving a pond in its wake, will be mixed with straw and then either moulded into blocks or poured straight into shuttering to make the walls.

Banbury once boasted a castle which enabled the town to grow in the shadow of its protective walls.

The side walls have several painted dummy windows.

We are standing almost at the corner of the High Street, with the old rectory (home of the famous authoress Dorothy Sayers) hidden behind the wall on the right.

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

Situated on the Great Ouse (Over actually means 'river bank'), the church of St Mary is lavishly built from Barnack stone, with an ornately decorated interior, and stone seats extending around much of the walls

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

Outside the walls along the section near the hotel and station was a burial ground. Many of the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832 were laid to rest there.

A number of temporary refreshment stalls stand on the far right near the cliff walls.

The sea wall was constructed in 1835 and the shingle beach can be clearly seen. Overlooking the sea are some fine old cottages, exuberant in design and with bulging thatch.

The apparent bricks in the wall are in fact neatly dressed stones; the west window tracery is carved from a pale freestone.

Note the sign on the wall: 'Tickets to view the church and hospital can be obtained here - Sundays excepting'.

The houses on the right have long gone, and have been replaced by a wide modern road whose only virtue is the exposure of the Roman wall formerly concealed behind the houses.

Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.

The houses of Middleborough grew up beyond the town walls and the north gate, which was demolished in 1823.

It is well-known for its wonderful old church, which has towers built by the Saxons and Normans. It also has a historic old abbey, now a nunnery, with walls of the old Saxon church.

Outside the walls along the section near the hotel and station was a burial ground. Many of the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832 were laid to rest there.