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Just about everything in this view is made of slate: the houses, walls, roofs, steps and gutters beside the lane. The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.

The Flower House on the corner became a bank in more recent years, while Wheelers car showroom on the right was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by offices.

It used to have a famous library of 8,000 books, including the copy of the Messiah used by Handel himself at the first performance; these treasures are now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Dating from the end of the 13th century, technically it is not a castle at all, but a moated manor house, and it would have been very open to attack.

The bendy section is now a quiet side street, while Heathfield House has lost its ivy.

The land to the right is now a housing estate, while a speed camera lurks around the bend!

The Lord Chancellor was responsible for the seal, which was kept at the House of Lords.

The building is linked on the right to Admiralty House.

Many new properties were built to cater for the demand of these newcomers, such as these fine terraced houses. The church building seen in the distance has since been demolished.

Now it houses Furness Gymnastics Club, and has lost its crown at the top.

There are open fields behind Porthpean House with its well manicured lawns.

The building on the cliff in the distance was erected as two houses in the 1890s and converted by a millionaire to a single dwelling in 1915.

The unusual 15th-century three-storey building (centre) is thought perhaps to have been a gatehouse to a former courtyard house, now Nos 67 and 69 High Street.

A large number of country houses, many of which were called castles by their owners, have either been demolished or are shadows of their former selves.

The view is north-eastwards along Marine Parade, to Madeira Cottages, Pyne House and the Assembly Rooms, with the cliffs of Cain's Folly in the distance (far right).

This great space was created by Bishop Flambard at the beginning of the 12th century: he decided to demolish the clutter of wooden houses and the market place because of the potential fire hazard

Many more housing estates have now been built in Marton, and the car park is much busier today.

Some of the local shops look out onto the large pond at the top end of Norton High Street, with the Unicorn public house on the corner just to the right of centre.

Elsewhere people paid to follow fashion and cover their houses with bricks; here that was a luxury few could afford.

In 1931 it was purchased by the council, who used the building as offices.

Hotels and guest-houses were built, and the number of holiday-makers seeking pleasure in Meols and Hoylake increased significantly.

Beyond it is a late 17th-century thatched house with a tall brick chimney stack. The pantile-roofed building is a workshop or old smithy where a cart is being repaired.

There are some fine cottages here, and no new housing.

The eastern end of Hastings beach beside the RNLI lifeboat house is known as the 'Stade'- Saxon for 'landing place'; here the fleet of about 40 fishing boats are still winched up onto the shingle.