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Whitstable suffered badly in the tidal surge of February 1953, when water poured over the sea wall and flooded the town.

The original Hoylake baths were opened in June 1913, and were filled by the sea flowing over a low sea wall.

The children in the foreground are pressed tight against the wall, maybe in apprehension, as photographs at this time were a rare event.

Extra defensive height was achieved by piling the spoil on top of the circuit walls to create a rampart.

On the right is the garden wall to Little Court, and behind the trees stands Layston School, skirted on the west by Paddock Road.

thoroughfare in Bearsden, one of Glasgow's northern suburbs, is named Roman Road, for it follows the line of a roadway constructed by the Romans in AD 142 along the south side of the Antonine Wall

It had only been intended to rebuild the outer walls but the project became much more ambitious.

Weighing 3 cwt it was so heavy that it had to be brought down to ground level, as it was causing the wall to bulge. Near Fernbeck Cottages were found querns and bronze implements.

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

On the left is the Close Wall and St Ann's Gate; on the right the White Hart Hotel stands out, with its giant portico surmounted by the eponymous deer.

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

The late Norman church, distinguished by its red crenellated tower, contains some ancient wall paintings, including a fresco of the murder of Thomas a Becket.

At the far right are the wall and railings belonging to the Congregational Church of 1874; its tower was kept when the church was demolished to make way for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1988.

The painting on the walls is expansive, and the monuments include one memorial to Lady Farrer, 1892, in Athenian style. She is seated in a chair, with the family standing opposite.

Bridge Street was known as Beaufront Street until the Middle Ages, and the land still sloped down to the sea until these sea walls were built after the Civil War.

The fine 15th-century tower with its Victorian pinnacles is built in local Wealden sandstone; its walls are the least renewed or refaced part of the church, whose three Victorian restorations

The lock has recently been entirely reconstructed with concrete abutments, lock walls and new timber paddles with galvanised steel walkways on top.

It stands in a raised walled churchyard with its four entrances at the compass points.

On the right-hand side of the winding village street stand flint-walled houses with brick dressings.

A 14th-century building, it has a strange pew perched up on the wall 'like an opera box'. It also has two rather precious books. One is a Breeches Bible that dates from 1560.

It began as a Roman walled town, and flourished in the Middle Ages with its fine Norman cathedral.

This east front faces the high walls surrounding Bedford Prison on the other side of Adelaide Square, which is itself a collection of fine buildings, some of 1801 by Bedford's own John Wing

Twice a year, in April and September, people come from all over to watch the Severn Bore, a wave varying in size from nothing more than a ripple to a wall of water several feet high.

A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden. She kept her Rolls-Royce in the barn.