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This picture also poses interesting questions - why is the solitary traveller leaning abjectly on the wall, and where is the horse?

The spire of St Peter's Church can be seen from all parts of Horbury.

On the right, just peeping from behind the harbour wall, is what might be the paddler 'Great Western'.

The National Provincial Bank of England on the left was built in 1901-03 on the site of the first houses to be built outside the medieval town walls in 1797.

A delivery bicycle is propped against the wall (right). The shelter of the Barograph Memorial has a pyramidal roof and a wrought iron weather vane.

Amongst these was a very old cruck-built Fylde cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century. Leckonby Hall is the most interesting historical building hereabouts.

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

The old walled town of Tenby was a highly popular watering-place in the far south-west of Wales, and the women will find plenty of customers when they hawk their catch on the beach and quayside.

The old walled town of Tenby was a highly popular watering-place in the far south-west of Wales, and the women will find plenty of customers when they hawk their catch on the beach and quayside.

The church has a Norman tower and west door, and traces of Roman brickwork have been discovered in its walls. It was restored in 1865.

Raglan Castle is an imposing, solid structure and was one of the last defensive castles to built in Wales.

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

Its derivation is probably literal, in that it may well refer to the gallows which were sited at the top of London Road hill, close to its junction with Evington Lane.

The church of St Mary-without-the-Walls was completed in 1887; its distinctive spire is something of a local landmark.

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

The very tall tree in the middle distance conceals the site of Priory Mill, an old watermill.

Built in 1154 by Henry de Essex on the edge of a valley, this high-walled building became the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury.

A great medieval port and a walled town, it declined as the sea retreated; by Victorian times it was mainly a prosperous market town for the surrounding area and the Walland Marshes.

This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village.

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

The upper storey was added in 1890, and the old walls encased with red brick and pediments in 1915.

It has an inner core divided into three stories, and around this core is an outer enclosing wall with a staircase in between.

Masonry rises on the skyline from the Butavant Tower (left) and the walls of the west bailey to the 80ft-high keep and the south-west gatehouse.

As well as the Smiths Arms again visible in the centre distance, we can also see two more public houses here - the Hope and Anchor, the long white building on the right, and the Bull and Dog immediately