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This good bronze by Tweed was unveiled in 1910; it still surveys the square, although the low stone walls either side of the plinth have been removed.

The Close constable still locks all Gates every night. Large sections of the wall and the gateways are built from stone brought from the original cathedral at Old Sarum.

This unspoilt walled town on its hilltop site was an important port until Elizabethan times, when the sea abandoned it and its harbour silted up.

Scheregate, the lane in the centre, sits astride Colchester's town wall. The house straddling Scheregate Steps replaces a Roman postern.

Private yachts are moored with their dinghies alongside the basin wall. Two paddle steamers are berthed on the opposite quay, and in the centre of the picture a lady is being rowed down to the river.

Private yachts are moored with their dinghies alongside the basin wall. Two paddle steamers are berthed on the opposite quay, and in the centre of the picture a lady is being rowed down to the river.

Note the tea-room sign on the open first floor window, with 'Tea and Coffee Specialists' emblazoned on the upper wall of the building.

The thatched cottages beyond have been all but demolished, but the front walls remain as part of a flat roofed house called The Old Workshop.

The River Glen is just over the wall flowing towards the Wash, and the church pathways are prettily lined by many daffodils in springtime.

The earlier gate stood to the left of its replacement, and the join in the wall shows its position. The arches on the front had statues in them, which were destroyed after 1539.

A plaque has been fixed to the wall above the bench: it is still there today, and states incorrectly that this is the site of the house of the Whitefriars.

This view from an upper window across Eastgate shows the north side of the minster with the back wall of the cloisters on the left.

The wall on the left separated the exercise area, the palaestra, from the baths proper.

War memorials face the church across the Garden of Remembrance, a fitting place for six plaques on curved walling for World War II, 1939-45, and the Cenotaph for World War I, 1914-20.

There are stout flint walls, splayed Norman windows and arches, and a tympanum depicting a cross.

The landscape in this photograph gives the appearance of great antiquity, with low stone walls and irregularly-shaped fields where sheep graze.

The tea stall and the small Walls ice cream stall are doing a roaring trade. There are swing boats and roundabouts for the little ones.

These tall commercial buildings are still there today, marred somewhat by new frontages. Exeter was the furthest west that the Romans ventured.

The nave west wall is also Anglo-Saxon.

Below (right) we can see the remains of the ancient wall defences of the castle.

An inscription on the west face of Carew's Celtic cross commemorates Maredudd ap Edwin, joint ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south west Wales, who died two years into his reign

A Preservation Society Trust plaque on the wall remarks on the rare Edward VIII 1936 monogram added later to the facade.

Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the

A Friends` Meeting House was erected there in 1804: the tree-shaded wall on the left surrounds its graveyard.