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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).

To the left is the side elevation of the Market Hall, and to the right The Royal Clarence Hotel; this is of about 1835, with tall first-floor sash windows and a columned porch.

It was made a royal burgh in 1592. In January of that year a hoard of silver coins dating from the time of Robert III were unearthed near the ruins of the cathedral.

The course at St Anne's was to become the famous Royal Lytham St Anne's after the 1926 Open Golf Championships, an event which now fills the hotels yearly.

Shortly after they had left, a troop of Royal Dragoons arrived in the town.

Sheerness, founded in 1665, closed in 1960, and Chatham Dockyards, founded in the 16th century, in 1984, finally severing the Royal Navy's connection with the Thames Estuary.

His choice of site was deliberate: here was the royal hall of Llywelyn the Great and the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary where he lay buried.

Opposite is Salter & Son's carpenters' workshops, while on the same side of the road are the Western Hotel and the Royal Standard Inn.

The impressive Royal Insurance building and the premises of Abel's Pianos have both gone; the Admiral Rodney pub, Household Linens, the Queen's Arms and Victoria House, at the very end of the row, have

The Royal Cumberland Cavern was one of several public show caves in Matlock Bath during the 1950s, and was well known for its formations of calcite and traces of the work of former lead miners.

Opened on 19 July 1911 to house the Royal Liver Insurance Company, this was the country's first building to be constructed from reinforced concrete.

Originally called the St Leonard's Hotel, the Royal Victoria was the first principal building of the new town laid out by James and Decimus Burton.

This portrait, painted by Anna Zinkeisen in the 1950s, was commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society, but then given to the family. It now hangs in the Fox Talbot Museum.

The last rector of Tyneham was Rev Humphrey Churchill Money, who was away serving with the Royal Engineers, when the Rectory was requisitioned by Southern Command, to extend the Lulworth

On the right, above the street, is the sign of the Royal Oak. At about this time, the occupier was W J Pilbeam.

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.

It was the only royal palace in Surrey; the motte was raised soon after the Norman Conquest.

This indicated that accommodation was available here, and that the rooms were of a standard approved by the Royal Automobile Club.