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This is another view of this splendid Norman castle, built on the site of a Romano-British fortress by Gerald de Windsor as a wooden stronghold.

Another bandstand survived, providing concerts and dancing (old time and folk) in the 1950s and 60s; it still provides a weekly concert in summer.

Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

Both the town centre and the High Street in general face increasing competition in the form of 'out of town' shopping, following the creation of the retail park.

The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.

1498-1570), another wealthy landowner and vice-Admiral of the Crown. The trouble started over the cargo of a French merchant ship wrecked on Oxwich Point.

The single street leads down to the river. An Austin A30 is parked beside an Armstrong Siddeley. Originally these 18th-century red brick cottages were for estate workers.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

This old gateway in the 19th century gave access to the Taylors Arms, the building half-way up on the left, which was destroyed by fire in 1930.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

Here we have another view of the village, with its cottages and barns built in its local sandstone.

The white monument is the memorial to the fishermen Abram and Greenall, who lost their lives trying to save another fisherman.

While the development of the railway network brought an ever-increasing number of day-trippers to the seaside, by the late-Victorian period the railway was also conveying an increasing number of

The noted firm of Wiggins, Teape & Co of Dover took over the business in 1930 but closed it down two years later.

The railway line was on the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway, which had opened in 1849.

Another son, also Sir William, took the name Herbert and was thought to be the most powerful man in Wales from 1465 until his death in 1469.

Derelict land on both sides of Broadway was screened by wooden hoardings and there were many complaints about this barren and unsightly part of town.

Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920.

Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.

Behind the parked van on the left are the premises once occupied by W Good's drapery and millinery shop, next to the ornate facade of the mid-Victorian Town Hall with its clock.

The Manor nearby was built on the site of a small Benedictine foundation of the early 12th century, dissolved in 1414.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

Perhaps it is the time of one of the annual fairs, rather than an ordinary market day, as stalls can be seen on both sides of Trinity Church Square.