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The growth of Lowestoft in Victorian times was largely down to construction by the civil engineer Samuel Morton Peto, who lived in nearby Somerleyton Hall.

The view looks towards Morton Crescent and Alexandra Terrace.

The Infirmary (on the right) was built opposite Coleman & Morton's ironworks - a firm that had specialised in ploughs and cultivators, but closed as a result of the agricultural depression.

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

The row of buildings on the left were the Cornwall Mineral Railway's depot, built in 1874 to the design of Sir Morton Peto.

Note, too, the pair of spectacles hanging from the shop on the right; these were the premises of Morton's opticians.

The journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in a cottage beneath the castle.

The long range of buildings on the left is the Cornwall Minerals Railway locomotive works, built in 1872-74 by Sir Morton Peto.

South Lowestoft was developed in the 1840s and 1850s by Sir Samuel Morton Peto.

Villager Mrs May Worley Morton recalled that in her childhood she had her first portrait painted beside Watery Lane by the Scottish artist Edwin Alexander.

In the background are Elsie Osman and Rose Morton.

These words by H V Morton sum up the charm of this diminutive city.

At the time this photograph was taken, the fort on the Nothe was equipped with quick-firing guns, searchlights and accommodation for a battalion of soldiers.

Albert Fort, on the headland at one end of the bay, was built to guard the strategically important waters of the Solent.

The village, thought to date to Saxon times, takes its name from the nearby hill-fort. On

Rodborough Fort, on the skyline, now masked by trees, remains an unmistakeable landmark.

Much earlier than that it was a hill fort. One

Magnus Barefoot built a timber fort on St Patrick's Isle in about 1098-1103; the bulk of the surviving fortifications date from the time of Thomas, First Earl of Derby, and were constructed in 1460-1504

Our Iron Age ancestors appreciated the importance of the site and built a hill fort on the top, but it was abandoned when the Romans conquered the region.

This photograph shows the skyline from the profile of Bell Stone (left, top) along to the ramparts of the Iron Age hill-fort on Eggardon Hill (right, top).

Four hundred of these workers combed wool in their homes at Forton, Scorton and Nether Wyresdale.

His was the thought behind the fortresses that were built in the late 1880s on and around Box Hill; there is still a fort on the summit of the hill, a testimony of a war that was never fought.