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Everything seems twisted or warped - the granite setts, alleys and courtyards, blue slate-hung walls, whitewashed rubble, tumbling roofs. Old fishermen sit in the sunlight outside Quick's sail loft.

On this road leading to the sea front, the cottage on the left has flint walls and a thatched roof. The front garden is decorated with staddle stones.

The low wall on the extreme left had been a pound - an overnight stopping-point for animals being driven to Chelmsford's livestock market.

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.

A sign on the wall of the post office informs customers that a public telephone can be used here.

With the faded lime wash and rough appearance of the cottages and walls, this scene has an almost Mediterranean air about it.

half-timbered gatehouse of the Hospital of St John, founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1084 and the second oldest medieval almshouse in England, which stands in Northgate Street, outside the original city walls

A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.

The river walls have since been raised to prevent flooding.

Until the 1950s, the wall surrounding Newell House, at the bottom of Greenhill opposite the Crown Hotel, was an accident blackspot and had to be demolished, providing the grassy verge we know today

The waterwheel housing can be seen on the left wall of the mill.

The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

A new sign has now replaced the harrow on the end wall of the pub.

The Gaiety Girl figure became an iconof the 1890-1900 decade, which was called both the Naughty Nineties and the Gay Nineties after the rumbustious music hall shows and the Paris-style chorus girls.

Nearby is the garage selling Cleveland petrol, and a child sits on the wall of Castle Green.

We can see it in this photograph, down near the high wall, centre right. He started by selling potatoes and milk, but he soon widened his range. He moved to new premises in 1972.

This is 'new' Dawlish, built after a replacement sea wall had allowed the shoreside area to be reclaimed from the sea.

The overgrown remains of St Boltolph's Priory, a Norman church standing outside the old Roman walls of Colchester.

In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

Note how the cobbled pavement beside the churchyard wall on the left contrasts with the more modern kerbed paving across the road.

It can just be seen on the west wall of the tower, through the branches of the tree.

Now the paths are laid out, together with benches alongside them; retaining walls have been built; and gas lamps installed.

The low wall on the extreme left had been a pound - an overnight stopping-point for animals being driven to Chelmsford's livestock market.

Before that, ships tied up at the churchyard wall of St Saviour's, the tower of which, built in 1631, can be seen in the centre.