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The tiny flint-walled church of St Mary was rebuilt c1135, and is one of the smallest in the county. It is only 60ft long, and consists of a nave and a lower chancel.

Bronze plaques on the adjacent walls carry more than 3000 names.

Following the demolition of Shipley Old Hall in Kirkgate, parts of the building - a wall, water chutes and a roof truss - were re-erected in this park.

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

Scarborough Castle, on the skyline, once stood 100 ft tall, with walls 12 ft thick; the keep was positioned in such a way so as to command the approach to the causeway leading to the castle.

The Local Board have expended £14,000 on a sea-wall and fine esplanade, and the pier, 1,000 feet in length, cost £5,000.

On the wall is a bubble gum machine, once a popular feature of the frontage of every village store in the country.

Note the stone mounting block by the wall.

This was the main exit from the walled city of York. Bootham Bar was built on the site of the Roman gate, and probably much of the stone was re-used.

The breakwaters have gone and the sea wall has been rebuilt, but most of the beach huts remain, with quaint names like Dolly's Den, Molly's and Sand Lea.

The use of local cobbles in the garden walls (right) has been a feature of building in the area for hundreds of years.

The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

There is a large parish notice board on the wall behind the lych gate that gives entrance to the churchyard.

A sign on the rickety telegraph pole advertises a public telephone, and fixed to the nearby wall is a bus timetable proclaiming that this is a fare stage.

This great citadel was erected by Edward I of England between 1285 and 1322 as one of a chain of castles by which he kept a secure footing in Wales.

The concrete block walls replaced railings lost during the Second World War. The somewhat utilitarian blocks have now been replaced by low hairpin railings: a considerable improvement.

The tower stands tall and proud, and it is not difficult to understand why St Margaret's was one of several beacons forming a connection with other churches from London to the coast.

In 1835 a tower, part of the town wall defences, was incorporated into what was then Belmont House; its height was increased by the addition of a turret to match the rest of the building.

Here we have a closer view of the wall and walk built from the cliff opposite, encompassing the ground later laid out as gardens, and earlier as a swimming pool, by the Pegwell Bay Reclamation

the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border—'London's lost route to the sea'.The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed to the wall

Just about everything in this view is made of slate: the houses, walls, roofs, steps and gutters beside the lane. The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.

The Walls ice-cream delivery van (bottom left) is beside beach kiosks and a 1910-built shelter, to which a clock was added in 1953, to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

The foliage-covered walls and gate present an attractive and imposing building. However, it has never played a significant part in the history of the town.

Undoubtedly this is one of the most romantic medieval sites in all of England.