Search Results

It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.

If we drive through the village, before long we reach the entrance to the Royal Victoria Country Park, formerly the site of the old Netley Hospital.

The Royal Aquarium, to the left, was built in 1875 to house a skating rink and aquarium: it later became a cinema.

Nearby are the National Bank, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and the Athenaeum Club.

The Royal Cromer Golf Club was formed in 1887 with HRH Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) as its first Patron.

The coats of arms are the Stuart Royal Arms and the City Arms; these were renewed in 1969.

Both Youings and The Royal and Fortescue are still in business, although the former has been rebuilt a couple of times.

The next few views are in the Inner Circle, east of the lake, which had been leased to the Royal Botanic Society from 1839 until 1932.

Now 'The Inn at Whitewell', the place has a reputation for serving good food and was built towards the end of the 14th century as a manor house by Walter Urswyck, a Keeper in the Royal Forest.

The present Wynyard Hall was completed in 1848, and many royal visitors were entertained there over the following hundred years.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

The Mersey's plucky little boats saw action in both World Wars, and the original 'Iris' and 'Daffodil' were awarded their title 'Royal' for their gallant service at Zeebrugge in 1918.

Following Charles II's defeat at Worcester, Dunnottar was the only fortress over which the royal standard of the house of Stewart remained flying.

Cheltenham, on the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal

It had been owned and developed by the Royal Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society for its members to enjoy and stock with the natural spoils of the Empire.

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

It is dated to the late 18th century by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, but it is said locally to have been built to a design by Sir Christopher Wren.

In the centre of the town are the ruins of Rothesay Castle, once a royal residence, and said to have been built about the year 1100.

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

On the right, the Royal Oak, the shop with the arched door and window, and the building nearest the camera, here Dolly's sweet shop, all remain.

II's great 12th century keep stands sentinel over Orford, built to guard the coast where Flemish mercenaries were brought ashore by the Earl of Norfolk, whose castles far out-numbered royal

The late Victorian terrace includes the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. On the right is the shingle mill, a vast screening plant, which was used to process shingle until 1958.

One rooftop of 1860 shows the Royal Insignia; it was the Court House, Lowergate (just out of this photograph).