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Here, those staying in Royal Terrace or at The Royal Hotel, could walk in peace, or linger for a while on one of the benches provided.

The Royal Bazaar was opened by Frederick Collins in the 1880s as the Royal Bazaar and Fancy Repository. Collins had another shop in Pier Gap.

Even as late as 1957 the 'Royal Daffodil' carried 144,000 passengers down to Margate in a ten-week period.

In the foreground are the buildings of the Royal Institute and the National Gallery, with Princes Street on the left behind the Scott Monument. Calton Hill can be seen in the distance.

The Royal Military Canal stretches parallel with the coast, hidden by the furthest trees in the middle distance. Note how little the seafront is built up at this time.

In the reign of Elizabeth I, a Royal Charter converted it into Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School.

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

Both firms produced silk products for the royal family, and Warners have woven velvet for every coronation since that of Edward VII.

The Village c1955 Shotley Gate, at the very end of the Shotley Peninsula, was home to the former HMS 'Ganges', the Royal Navy's training school.

It would take seven centuries from the granting of the first written royal charter. The dark spire in the foreground is that of the Tollbooth, the old headquarters of the council, built about 1616.

To the left of the Italianate Corn Exchange, G C Flanders advertises the various cycles sold in the shop: Swift, Rover, Royal Enfield, Rudge and Whitworth amongst them.

The Royal Hotel (left) vied with the George in attracting a superior local clientele. Next door, the drapers, Pritchard's, has a sun awning to prevent the window display fading.

The brick gateway, with its barely discernible royal cipher, is all that remains.