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This photograph shows the dovecote at the end of the Abbot's garden, the wall of which is undergoing repairs at the time of the picture.

Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.

The view today, over 80 years on, is little changed, except that the wall to the right has largely disappeared.

A nice link with the past is this photograph of the Spa post office complete with stamp machine and wall post box.

One row of houses further on is the line of the old Roman wall, whilst just off-camera to the right are the ruins of the Norman St Botolph's Priory, the first in the country founded by the Augustinian

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

The flint walled boatshed on the left is now obscured by a gift shop/information centre.

The civil engineers of the future concentrate on their construction work, while a budding mountaineer attempts a climb of the stone wall (left).

Here inmates of Pegwell's Working Men's Convalescent Home stroll with their families.The home was noted for its sunken garden on reclaimed land, seen on the left below the sea wall.

The old tramlines were eventually torn up and used to reinforce the concrete of the sea wall.

The retaining wall along Torquay Road was the 1886 halfway meeting place of the 'Flatpole' and 'Dicky Bird' bands of warring youths! In the centre is St Paul's Church, built in 1939.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

The sign on the wall offers coffees, accommodation, teas and lunches.

The creeper has been removed, and the chimneys have been cut down, but behind a new low wall the building remains an important local landmark.

Much of this avenue survives the outer bailey, although it is now bounded by 1920s low walling, and the ornate benches have been replaced by more utilitarian ones.

The town's old graveyard behind the Town Hall had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway—surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country—running alongside.

The long wall is now broken for entrances to later housing. St Paul's Church, together with Holme Island, in the centre of the picture, are still to be seen from here.

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

The road at the right leads to the original railway station, whilst the road cutting under the city wall leads to the new station built in the 1870s.

Founded in c1200, Fonmon is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square tower or keep and a curtain wall.

The wall on the left now has two boards bearing the names of all the Mayors of Totnes back to 1359.

This 16th-century lodge, set in what was the walled kitchen- garden of Weald Hall, has unsubstantiated associations with (pre- Bloody) Queen Mary.