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The 19th-century Gothic style gatehouse to The Park has a turret and plenty of ivy growing up the stone walls. Park House is now nearly all demolished.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

A paddle steamer lies moored at the harbour wall. The first steam- driven paddle vessels, the 'Ivanhoe' and the 'Warspite', arrived in Weymouth as early as 1827.

His famous painting 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' features the sea wall across the road from where Millais stayed.

Fashions have altered more than somewhat, and the outer wall of the Peacock looks much the worse for wear. The Midland Railway station was located to the right of this picture.

A brass of a 14in figure to Elizabeth Prout, 1440, is in the chancel north wall.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

military origins, the outline of the fort succeeds in making a dramatic statement on the skyline of the common; it serves to highlight the domestic scene below, where each house has its walled

On the right the low wall is in front of the Congregational church, now demolished. Several of the houses have later façades. The central one is where Thomas Gainsborough lived in the 1750s.

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

A girl leans idly against a wall beside a creeper-covered cottage, a scene that has not greatly changed in the seventy years that have passed since the photograph was taken.

An interest- ing decorative panel on the wall between the upper windows is formed from beach pebbles.

The architect was J Wallis Chapman who used brick with stone bands and dressings topped off by an open cupola. The walls and gates and the finials have gone.

Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

Orford had a revolutionary new design of a towered keep with curving walls, which withstood the rebellion of 1173. All the other buildings of the castle complex have been destroyed over time.

In the past many of the visitors to the area would have come in order to enjoy country pursuits, and it is interesting to see the round sign on the hotel wall for members of the Cyclists

Rhosili village is enclosed by an ancient field system: strips of land known as landshares are bounded by low stone walls.

The nearest cottage has pebble-dash rendering on the walls and a long-straw thatched roof with a traditional swept ridge.

The church exterior is of Bisley stone, while that used for the interior walls, most of the pulpit and the base of the font, comes from Painswick.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank. The little building to the rear, which here has 'baths' written on it, is now used as a store for canoes.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.