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The watch-tower in the roof of the new prison was built so the guards could observe all activity in the exercise yards.

The esplanade extends for about a mile, and is lined with elegant houses and defended by a substantial sea-wall.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

In the second view we are looking at the same façade as above, but from another angle; we can see details of the walls and windows.

His wife only surrendered Bamburgh after her husband had been paraded before the walls under threat of having his eyes torn out.

The sunshine picks out the white walls of rock chalk of this fine Edwardian house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with planting and landscaping by Gerturde Jekyll.

Later 14th-century improvements included a curtain wall and the heightening of the keep.

The gateway seems to dwarf the children by the wall. The War Memorial to the left is in the form of a medieval calvary.

The full-length figure (which bears the arms of FitzOsbert of Drogheda) is probably a replacement procured by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, when the original effigy was broken when the south nave wall

Wheat-straw covered chalk clunch walls at Haydon Farm, and a long 1704-dated barn in Flemish-bond brickwork, stood beside a hayrick in the centre of the village.

The pargetted panels are replacements of similar panels that decorated the plastered walls of many timber-framed buildings in Linton.

The village is now a faceless sort of place, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

The 17th-century Church Farm (centre), with its brick end wall and gables, was thatched at the time of the photograph.

The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar made by burning sea-shells – this method was used by the Romans.

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

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.

The carved faces on the walls have survived (some of them are comical), and the bosses in the vault and some pieces of original medieval glass remain.

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

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.

It can be a long dangerous slide down the tiered sea walls to the sands and pier. The smart new flight of steps allowed ladies in long dresses to make a dignified descent.

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Lobster pots, small fishing boats and flint cobble walled fishermen's cottages survive the tide of modern housing.