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Note the sign at the newsagents for Eldorado ice cream, which was very popular at the time and one of the main competitors of Walls.

It acquired town walls in 1285, and in 1353 it wrested away Lincoln's wool staple. It was the wool trade that built the town, with its seething market and vast numbers of ships.

that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill dominated the town's eastern growth beyond the town walls

Here we see the western end of the lord's hall following its restoration.

The farmhouse, (out of shot to the left), Walnut Cottage, and some frontage walling also survives.

Today, the property is called The Old Stone House, and all that remains of its Royal Mail connections are a pillar box set in a wall and a telephone box.

The row of cottages on the left is known as Station Terrace, with the post office close to the camera with a post box and stamp machine set into the wall.

Raikes Road had many thatched dwellings; as late as 1961, when alterations were afoot, one cottage proved to be a Fylde cruck-built cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century.

The large boat moored along side the pier wall is the RAF boat.

Behind the wall on the left stood Winchcombe Abbey, which the people of Winchcombe were given the opportunity to buy when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.

street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind its panelled brick boundary wall

Many of the buildings can be recognised today, but they are now separated from the water in the harbour by walls supporting a road and a walkway.

The sea wall, recently here completed in reinforced concrete, has since been robustly and massively replaced to repel rising sea levels.

Although the castle has never experienced a siege, it has remained a military base, with barracks built inside the walls during the First World War to house conscientious objectors.

This wonderful view from the walls was taken before the onslaught of the motor car, and when gas lamps were still in place.

Two more were built after one another; the second was washed away by floods.This photograph, showing the castle walls and the dome of the Debtors' Prison, was taken from the fourth recorded bridge, which

The 1922 post office has taken the place of Castle House which went in 1913 and if you look you will see that the post office building line exactly corresponds to the line of Castle House boundary

If Edward VI had not offered St Stephen's chapel with its facing walls for the Commons, then the lower chamber might have evolved into a round building, as elsewhere in Europe.

A painted inscription on the wall claims that The Saracen's Head was built in the 11th century. However, the present building dates mainly from the 15th century.

The college, founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, lies in the shadow of the old city wall.

The Odeon Cinema is built in a contrasting architectural style - a sort of Art Deco with rendered walls and rusticated ground floor as befits a venue to escape from the everyday.

All else survives except the shop-in-a-shed. This is the frantically busy A330 and the wall on the right, to Holyport Lodge, has been moved back for road widening.

However, none of the buildings survive, although the dock walls and the entrance abutments in the distance remain.

It is a quirky building in leaded light vernacular style, and the boundary wall has milestones set in giving distances to Edinburgh, London and York.