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Worcester was a walled city until the 18th century, and witnessed a great deal of conflict, particularly during the English Civil War.

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

Dated 1729 on a rainwater head its front with its flanking full-height bay windows is more window than wall. A most elegant composition with an equally elegant limousine parked outside.

The harbour wall was built in 1770 by John Smeaton, who in 1759 built the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse which now stands on Plymouth Hoe. The old St Ives light (far left) was also designed by Smeaton.

These were threatened by the instability of the cliffs, and in the 1980s a large sea wall was built, stretching from around the point out of the picture on the right.

A less widely used path is that below the castle walls on the right, which winds around from the main entrance to Mill Street.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

Within, a curious niche in the west wall may be the entry to an anchorite's cell of c1400.

Cannons and a statue can be seen near the Castle walls along the North Terrace. The cannons are still there but the statue has gone.

The figures on the wall are no longer there. Today, the Cockpit is a very popular restaurant.

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

Burgh was also close to the western end of Hadrian's Wall, and the parish church of St Michael is built within a Roman fort.

furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall

The adjoining walls and buildings were subsequently destroyed so that traffic bypassed the gate.

The forbidding walls that surround the castle can be seen in the background. Originally there were six postern towers; the one at Fishergate is now the only one that remains unaltered.

The eastern buttresses are unusual in that they are extensions of the nave west wall. Below the nave roof is a row of blocked quatrefoil windows, although the aisles were never built.

The direction sign points to the county town, 10 miles away, and there is the classic confection of village life - church, public house with a wall against which to lean your bicycle, and the bus stop

St Barnabas's Church stands behind the two gate pillars (right), and a memorial in a nearby wall lists the village's fallen from the First and Second World Wars.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

Situated to the south-east of Milford Church, Hurst Castle was probably built between 1539 and 1544 and comprises a twelve-sided central tower protected by a curtain wall and semi-circular bastion towers

The church of St Leonard is perched on a steep slope just below the walls of the castle, overlooking the village.

A solitary ladies' bicycle stands against the wall of an ivy-adorned cottage. Although the cottage is still recognisable today, it has lost its ivy foliage.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe

The old village of Constantine was home to the miners and quarrymen who worked the granite for which the parish was famous - small wonder that the walls of some of the cottages were solidly built.