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The wall of the house on the right is smothered in trade posters and advertisements for the forthcoming attractions at the Empire Theatre.

The only casualty since 1899 is the wall on the right, sacrificed for road widening at the junction with Hardwick Road. Sellwoods on the left had only just been built.

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

The post office stands on the right, with a stamp machine on the wall outside. The massive keep of the castle that gives the village its name attracts many visitors.

Another view of the centre of the village, showing the Old Hall Hotel on the right and the raised, walled churchyard on the left.

Hundreds of feet of drift nets are being inspected and mended where necessary on the wall, and there is a pile of cork floats behind the men on the quay edge.

The big tree in St Mary's churchyard has gone, and the wall has been rebuilt further back from the pavement.

Sidmouth's sea wall was built in 1835, and has been strengthened subsequently.

Above the village are the remains of the mammoth mine of Drake Walls.

St Peter's was dedicated in 1318 by Bishop Stapledon; by 1860 it had fallen into a ruinous state, with bulging walls and sinking roofs. It was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1866-82.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

It was from here, on 24 September 1645, that King Charles watched the Battle of Rowton Heath, which took place just outside the city walls.

The flint wall on the left, now dismantled, is probably marking the entrance to Keepers. In the 1950s, Seretse Khama of Basutoland spent his exile in Starrock Lane.

As to the rest of the photograph, the cottages are now one dwelling but even the boundary walls have changed little in over a century.

The timber work on the gable end of the building fronting the road remains the same, but the front wall is now all stone, giving the entire structure a much more medieval apperance.

We are looking north- eastwards from the Lower Walk, across mooring lines in the sand, at low water; sailing vessels are moored beside the Cobb Warehouses (right).

The castle comprised a gatehouse, round keep, curtain wall, two round turrets and five small turrets.

Note the drystone walls leading down to the river crossing.

Wharf Road is now a busy thoroughfare, the harbour wall a sturdy granite breakwater crowned with iron railings and tall street lamps.

They were rebuilt slowly from 1297 to 1430; their size was set by the larger-than-life Herbert de Losinga's Norman cloisters, whose outer walls survived the 1272 fire.

Though Penrith was sacked by the Scots in 1314 and 1345, the earliest fortifications were the town walls erected in c1346-47.

To the right behind the tree (now gone) is the wall to the churchyard.

Note the old 'school' traffic sign on the the recessed wall to the left. The symbol then was a flaming torch, its detail picked out with white reflectors.

ings in St John Street and Vineyard Street have been lost, this wonderful group of jet- tied buildings survives, clustering up to Schere Gate, possibly a medi- eval gate through the town wall