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The keep once stood 100ft high and has walls 12ft thick.

Just beyond the banner advertising the attractions of the new Shopping Centre was the local branch of J Sainsbury's, with its tiled walls and marble counters, suffused with the subtle and distinctive

On the immediate left, the tobacconist and confectioner's shop has some wall-mounted machines dispensing chewing gum and other sweets, as well as a stand advertising Lyons Maid ice cream.

Seventy years before there was a timber quay under the walls of the Tower, with tall-masted sailing ships edging through the raised bascules of Tower Bridge.The river here was thick with islands of

Ancient tin moulds have been found built into the walls of the quay. Its once navigable creek is now silted up.

One of the busiest shops in Broad Walk was Bellmans, selling wool and patterns for babies and young children.

Close by are the ruined walls of a 13th-century Augustinian priory founded in 1253 by Sir John Mansell, a priest's son who became a counsellor to Henry III.

The brick boundary wall has been rebuilt in stone and is now much lower.

An early form of people carrier, a charabanc, is parked towards the sea wall, while a double-decker bus has stopped to let the day-trippers alight.

This unusual view shows the Mount's estate houses and a harbour wall, with Marazion stretched out along the coast and Trencrom Hill rising behind on the extreme left.

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

Swords and armour bedeck the walls.

Its walls are hidden beneath some rather tatty rendering, but are almost certainly made of granite, which can be seen in the arch below the gable, and in the horse trough in which the little boy

A few ruined walls in the estuary mark the site of Fort Charles, which was garrisoned by the royalist army for four months in 1646 during the English Civil War.

Built around 1300, at the same time as the town walls, the polygonal towers would have provided four floors linked by a spiral staircase.

A short distance away behind the church, to the right, we can see the ornate window and gable end of the Methodist church (now the village hall).

In the distance is East Budleigh's charming old thatched vicarage with its delightful walled garden. Known today as Vicar's Mead, this is where Sir Walter Raleigh went to school.

The one to the left of the pointed gable is called Dick Turpin`s Cottage, though it does not have any documented link with the famous thug.

It is also a haven for birdwatchers, who over the years have recorded rare sightings of the dusky warbler and desert wheatear in Stuart Lane and Chambers Wall.

A bronze plaque on the wall commemorates James Hargreaves, who, in 1764, invented his revolutionary 'Spinning Jenny' while living here.

We can see thatched cob walls on both the left and the right; Over Wallop is the place to go in Hampshire to see this regional speciality.

The buildings on the hill are the upper part of Brimscombe village, with Walls Quarry and Burleigh to the right.

Beyond are the walls to the grounds of The Dicker, but many of the trees are now gone.

Beyond the low stone wall along the left side of the road the land drops to the bank of the River Avon.