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The rest of the building is now open to the sky and used as a walled garden.

This cavernous-like entrance opens out into a picturesque cove, containing two walled-in bathing pools for ladies and gentlemen.

This picture was taken from the Central Pier and gives us an idea of what the town's sea defences looked like prior to the widening of the Promenade and the construction of the sea wall we all know and

A chocolate machine sits on the wall. The building today is a private dwelling, Waterloo House.

The bridge has since been replaced, but part of the brick wall to the right remains.

The four corner towers - of which only two survive to any great height - have walls nine feet thick at the base.

One cottage has the remains of the 15th-century open hall. The tall house on the right has fire rings at eaves height for ladders to be tied to the wall. A

On the wall of the nave is 'one of the loveliest fragments of sculpture in Wiltshire, the portrait of a 13th-century lady, with curls in her hair, and hands clasped'.

This magnificent church, now mainly Perpendicular, dates back to Norman times – the evidence for this can be seen in wall friezes and arcading in the chancel.

The massive towers and walls withstood some of the earliest cannon used in Britain, and its starving inhabitants only surrendered after a lengthy siege.

The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854 and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.

The view from the tennis court shows the little-seen back elevation of Holme Hall.

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.The little building to the rear, which here has 'baths' written on it, is now used as a store for canoes.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

From within the churchyard the chequer pattern of the walls is evident, with limestone blocks alternating with small panels of flint to give a rich decorative effect.

There is a sizeable stack of what look like floorboards piled against the wall. The downs can just be glimpsed over the rooftops - in 1875 the East?

The most infamous event in the castle's history occurred in the hall, situated just behind this outer wall.

The pedestrians walking towards the camera are heading for the High Street and, no doubt, the market.

This is on the Norman motte or mound; the castle had two large baileys or walled enclosures, the north one relatively open still, the south one overwhelmed by Buckler's heavy-handed Victorian work.

The mine has caused the ground to subside over time, which is probably the cause of the sagging in the side walls that is still visible.

West Street is quieter than the High Street and this view looks south-west past the village hall with its somewhat ungainly porch 'perched' on the roof.

Mayhew reports that they sold violets, wall-flowers, stocks, pinks and roses - anything, in fact, that could be forced and wsa sweet-smelling. 'Gentlemen are our best customers.

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine