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This final view from the castle keep looks due south across the bus station in Porter's Field.

The Bowes Museum was designed and purpose-built as a public art gallery by the French architect Jules Pellechet on the outskirts of the historic town of Barnard Castle.

The Castle was rebuilt and improved over many years, and was garrisoned against the Welsh rebellions of Gruffydd ap Rhys in 1153 and Owain Glyndwr during the early 15th century, but never suffered

Alan was the son of the Count of Penthievre, and related to the Duke of Brittany, a relationship that often saw the castle declared forfeit to the Crown.

The thirty years since photograph 72307 (page 38-39) have left the Callis unchanged, but the area on the right of the photograph, which included the remains of the castle mound, has been levelled and developed

As we look down Castle Street, we can see the NCB Club on the right. There used to be a Braces` Bakery near to the Glyn Café.

All four of the hotels on Castle Street do very good meals. The cafe next door had Taylor & Hughes as proprietors in 1921: their slogan was 'we are noted for our pork pies'.

The castle was slighted in 1646 on the orders of Parliament, and the keep and walls blown up with gunpowder.

The castle has a long pedigree, with some remains of the Roman period imbedded within the structure, but the whole medieval core was systematically upgraded by the 3rd Marquis of Bute and his architect

The Red Lion Inn beyond was popular with farmers visiting the cattle mart, which lay to the rear, off Patten Lane.

The original castle, raised around 1068, comprised a 70ft high motte and two baileys, built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon fortification.

This was one of the earliest castles in England to be constructed from stone (in about 1090); the massive 125ft-high keep, the tallest in the country, was added by William de Corbeil, Archbishop of Canterbury

This is the Joymount corner of the town; the gardens, no longer there, mark where a governor of the castle, Sir Arthur Chichester, began to build a fine mansion in 1610.

Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres as a reward for his defence of Ogmore Castle when it was attacked by the Welsh.

Alan was the son of the Count of Penthievre, and related to the Duke of Brittany, a relationship that often saw the castle declared forfeit to the Crown.

Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.

In 1137 the English inhabitants and the Norman garrison of Clitheroe Castle joined forces to fight off one such raid.

Inside, the hotel is notable for its impressive black staircase dating from 1660, which is said to have been brought here from Loch Leven Castle in Scotland.

The picture was taken from Castle Hill, the site of an old manor house lookout, probably also used in Roman times during the construction of Wade's Causeway over the moors past Goathland.

At the end of the broad drive leading to the castle grounds are the fine entrance gates, beyond which is the 12th-century church of St Brandon.

This is not so much a castle, more a gentleman's folly. Blaise, with its four castellated towers, was built in 1771 by Thomas Farr.

Castle House stands behind the iron railings on the right, beside the George Inn.

In between, there remained a triangle of small slum streets beginning at Castle Place.

The castle (right) dominates the centre of this large market town at the entrance to Swaledale.