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The shop, now run by Tony Rowell, is a veritable Aladdin's cave, and the two enamel advertisements still remain on the wall.

Pell Wall Hall was built in the 1820s by the architect Sir John Soane. In recent years, having been abandoned, vandalised and finally set on fire, it has recently been restored.

Apart from a reinforced sea wall, this view of Marine Parade is little changed today. Here, visitors await the ferry for Appledore.

The wall on the right would be that of the Police Station, near the junction of the High Street with Portesbery Road.

Everyone who loves fine porcelain should visit Powick, for it was the birthplace in 1708 of Dr John Wall, who opened the first factory for the creation of Worcester Porcelain.

On the left is a wall monument to Granville Piper and Richard Wise, both aldermen and mayors of Launceston in the early 18th century.

This photograph was taken from the harbour wall. From here we can see how the picturesque fishing village has been crammed into the flatter land between the sea and a steep hill.

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

Noble trees cluster round the churchyard wall. The public drinking fountain, decorated with embedded pebbles, was constructed in the 1820s. The lane is plain compacted mud.

Westgate offers some idea of what it would have been like to live beside the city walls. The portcullis was removed in 1744 when it became 'a nuisance, and of no manner of use'.

A cannonball fired from here struck the north wall of Christ Church, where Charles I and his court were staying at the time.

A fascinating epitaph within reminds us that 'Man is a glass: Life is as water that's weakly walled about: Sinne brings Death: Death breaks the glass: So runs the water out. Finis'.

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

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

Boats are drawn up on the beach under the walls of the fishing township, and their nets are drying on the rails beside the slipways.

If these great walls had ears, they had undoubtedly heard it all before.

The fine vaulted roof is clearly visible, as is the leaning north wall of the nave, sloping outward as it rises.

Beyond the high brick wall with its iron restraints, a very good array of Georgian houses lead the eye into the market place and on to St Dionysius Church.

It had undergone a number of incarnations since the Bard's day, but the timber framework, the floors and some of the internal walls are as they were in the 16th century.

In this photograph the cottages had only recently had their thatch replaced and the wall, next to the woman with the dog, rebuilt.

It had undergone a number of incarnations since the Bard's day, but the timber framework, the floors and some of the internal walls are as they were in the 16th century.

The curtain wall, shown in this photograph, is all that remains of Strickland's castle, which is now a public park.

The thatch is well-maintained and looks as though it might have been recently replaced, but the walls are scarred and eroded from poor weather and exposure to the sea winds.

The cottage on the left has been replaced with gardens; the wall on the right was once used as a place where slaughtered pigs were scalded and skinned.