Search Results

The old city of Hereford was contained by the River Wye to the south and the town walls to the north.

From the High Street, walk down Upper Borough Walls on the site of the town's medieval north wall to turn left into Union Street.

The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

It looks as though they may be finishing work on the wall in the foreground, perhaps linked to the new frontage for the main building constructed around this time.

Unfortunately, since then, the road has been considerably widened and the walls moved about 60 ft further away as concrete retaining walls.

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls. Much of the street plan was changed.

The projection of the nave walls beyond the wall of the chancel would, as in many churches, have housed the rood-stair in the past.

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

The walls around that town still survive, and this is the view looking beyond those old city walls to the east – the photographer was standing right over the old gate.

The brick and flint walls on the left were demolished for road widening; this took the 1960s concrete panel retaining wall near to Bank Farm, whose chimney is on the left.

Perhaps the girls are buying a bus ticket here, but the Walls ice cream signs suggest they may be after something more exciting.

The square gun tower on the right, c1500, was constructed against the curtain wall, and contains two chambers.

The stocks and whipping post were moved from their previous position against the Bridewell wall to protect them from the 'increase in traffic' generated by the newly- built Fire Station.

The spire of St Mary's church soars above the town, and to the right is the boundary wall of Petworth Park, the great mansion built by the Duke of Somerset towards the end of the 17th century.

Extensive stretches of the old medieval town walls survive today, and many of the towers and gates are still standing.

Further away from the waterfront are Victorian houses behind the low boundary walls. The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery.

This well-worn structure of decorative flint work was part of the old medieval town walls, built as a fortification at the end of the 13th century.

There is a faded wall painting of the Holy Rood on the north wall.

The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

The half-timbered houses with one storey overhanging the next look picturesque to modern eyes, but originally those jetties (as overhangs are called) served a purpose.

South-westwards from the North Wall (left), across the harbour basin just about as empty as it would be today, are the Cobb Warehouses (centre) and Granny's Teeth steps, to the left

In 1903 the main south wall of the abbey was built up to the ruined west front, and repairs to the roof and buttresses on the north side and east end were undertaken.

There is yellow brickwork on the inside wall surfaces and painted tiles depicting saints on the chancel walls. The east window has stained glass dating back to the late 1940s.

The most striking feature of this view of Bakewell church's choir and east end are the mass of brightly-coloured paintings which adorn the walls.