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The Royal Victoria pier was opened in 1899; it enabled Tenby to be included in what was then a newly-created passenger service along the coast.

The Royal Oak is on the north side of the street (right). The busy mix of cyclists and cars is typical of a 1950s street scene.

This end of Upper Parliament Street, with the Theatre Royal halfway along and out of sight on the left, has seen many changes since the 1950s.

In the centre of the building is an interesting octagonal lantern with the royal coat of arms above the doorway.The plaque beneath it records the work of Bishop Seth Ward, a friend of Christopher

Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.

During the 18th century, Liverpool merchants were practised in the noble arts of customs evasion, especially the royal duty due on tobacco.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent. There is also an underground labyrinth of caves.

Their local interpreter John Russell made such an impression on the royal couple that they took him to the court of Henry VII, where he became a leading courtier.

The Fish Dock was built in 1893, when it served the biggest fishing fleet in the world; this fact might seem to be contradicted by this preponderance of merchant vessels berthed in the Royal Dock.

Built in 1826 to designs of Samuel Beazley, the architect of the Theatre Royal in Dublin, they were needlessly demolished by the Council in 1947.

The Parliament Hall is close to the Inner Court and James VI's Chapel Royal.

It was the only fortress in Scotland that flew the Stuart royal flag after Charles's defeat at Worcester in 1651.

On the junction with Westgate Street is the Theatre Royal, one of only three surviving Regency theatres in the country, built in 1819 by William Wilkins, architect of the National Gallery.

Both the nearby British Legion building and the Royal Buildings are also his.

Today, the chapel, with its distinctive green dome, is all that remains of the old Royal Victoria Military Hospital, opened in 1868 and demolished in 1966.

Opposite is the Royal Oak Hotel (centre), and the Wilts and Dorset Bank (far right) had yet to be absorbed into Lloyds.

As a church architect, Peck was certainly indifferent, but his memorial is the former Royal Agricultural Hall, London Borough of Islington, which he built in 1861.

The Royal Oak run by George Wells for Ind Coope is on the left.

This substantial civic building was the gift of a local J P, and befits a leading Irish port serving the daily Royal Mail run to Stranraer.

Within easy distance of the railway station, the Royal Hotel served Ilkley's many visitors for nearly a century.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

Renamed the Royal York Hotel when it was bought in 1983, it is a Grade 2 listed building. The station and hotel were designed by Thomas Prosser. Both thrive to the present day.

The heavily laden coach appears to serve either the Royal Gatehouse or the Lion Hotel.