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It stood 82 ft high, was 65 ft in diameter, and the walls were 15 ft thick.

Multi-storey car parks are, like bungalows, notoriously difficult to design, but the tremendous horizontality of the protective concrete walls produces a dramatic, almost nautical response to a difficult

The shopping parade with flats over is unchanged, but the fir tree and the walls to the left have gone for road improvements.

Wareham St Martin's (right), standing on King Alfred's Town Walls, is Dorset's earliest complete church. Anglo-Saxon arcading was replaced by Norman arches in the 12th century.

Their character is very different from the Quantocks or Exmoor; here, sheep scratch an existence from the poor limestone soils, and the fields are divided by dry stone walls.

The chancel, with its priest's doorway and wall paintings, is early 13th-century and the fine chancel screen dates from around 1500.

For decades, just as in this picture, people have sunned themselves along the sea wall. The Bay Hotel is on the right.

The outside walls have three horizontal tiers and gables in the nave and chancel.

In this typically well-wooded river scene, we can see lavish use of stone in walls and bridge that could stand for centuries.

A promenade walk had been established along the street in the 1880s, when some of the gardens were removed.

We look eastwards from the bushes and wall of The Grove (left). This large Victorian villa was destroyed by fire in 1952, which enabled widening of the street.

This view shows the spot where the south lane curves north to meet the main through east-west lane; the wall to the left to Aldsworth is now reduced in height by half.

The clock above the Market Hall (centre) was a favourite rendezvous point for many courting couples on their way to the theatre and cinemas.

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

Beyond, the trees and walls have made way for a wider road.

Rectory Lane used to be called Duck Street. The water-carter (right) has just drawn water from the spout and trough recessed in the wall (far right).

This photograph shows the ruins of the two towers at the east end of the curtain wall, the remains of which still stand three storeys high. Hadleigh was a favourite residence of Edward III.

Framlingham, built 1190-1210, is amongst the earliest castles in England to be constructed with a fortified curtain wall.

Behind the wall to the left was the Baptist Chapel of 1796, demolished in 1967.

Notice the arms displayed between the windows - they have now been moved to the top of the gable wall.

The yoke hung on the front wall was used for draught animals, most probably oxen.A tall white flagpole stands in the garden.

By the mid-16th century the castle was semi-derelict: a long stretch of curtain wall had collapsed and at least one floor of the keep had fallen in.The fortress was in such poor condition that it was

The passengers' sense of quiet contentment is almost tangible as this packed pleasure boat rounds the harbour wall, and heads for the disembarkation point, having cut safely inside the outward-bound

Burns's father, who had repaired the kirk wall to keep the sheep at bay, is buried in the churchyard.