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The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Lobster pots, small fishing boats and flint cobble walled fishermen's cottages survive the tide of modern housing.

It can be a long dangerous slide down the tiered sea walls to the sands and pier. The smart new flight of steps allowed ladies in long dresses to make a dignified descent.

The carved faces on the walls have survived (some of them are comical), and the bosses in the vault and some pieces of original medieval glass remain.

At the right are the walls to Walpole Park. Next door is St Mary's, one of the village's original 18th-century houses.

The wall on the extreme right of the photograph once marked the boundary of West Cheam Manor.

At the same time the chancel walls were panelled, new altar rails were installed, and a new pulpit was erected.

A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden. She kept her Rolls-Royce in the barn.

The great gale of 1891 destroyed the bulk of the Polperro fishing fleet, and resulted in the harbour walls being extended to create a narrow entrance that could be closed off with timber baulks should

Much of the grounds and garden walls were restored in 1912, and the walks were opened to the public.

Twice a year, in April and September, people come from all over to watch the Severn Bore, a wave varying in size from nothing more than a ripple to a wall of water several feet high.

This east front faces the high walls surrounding Bedford Prison on the other side of Adelaide Square, which is itself a collection of fine buildings, some of 1801 by Bedford's own John Wing

It began as a Roman walled town, and flourished in the Middle Ages with its fine Norman cathedral.

Dating from about 1860, the gatehouse is a fantastical construction of flintwork walling with a welter of brick enrichment.

The cries of traders echo through the expansive square, planned by Inigo Jones.The scene has been described by a contemporary guidebook: ‘All night long the rumble of heavy wagons seldom ceases, and

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel can be seen left of centre, and the old white-walled Ship Hotel us to the extreme right. The houses on the left are in Scarbrough Avenue.

The watch-tower in the roof of the new prison was built so the guards could observe all activity in the exercise yards.

In the second view we are looking at the same façade as above, but from another angle; we can see details of the walls and windows.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

The esplanade extends for about a mile, and is lined with elegant houses and defended by a substantial sea-wall.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

The gateway seems to dwarf the children by the wall. The War Memorial to the left is in the form of a medieval calvary.

The full-length figure (which bears the arms of FitzOsbert of Drogheda) is probably a replacement procured by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, when the original effigy was broken when the south nave wall

The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar made by burning sea-shells – this method was used by the Romans.