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A group of children pose around a rock pool, with varying degrees of stiffness. The panama hats and high stockings are typical of the early 1920s.

You can see Norman evidence here with the blocked arch into the long-demolished south transept from the tower, and also the doorway arch.

A brass plaque on the wall in the old block of the technical college commemorates his 21 years as Chairman of the Governing Body for Secondary and Technical Education.

It is now replaced by a block of flats, while the foreground field is now a tennis court; behind the photographer are now modern houses along Church Road.

Behind is now the 1960s council offices, a seven-storey block.

It was also lined by gruesome 1960s office blocks that replaced older and better buildings.

This 15th-century church built of squared ragstone blocks has a tower 75 feet high standing amid a number of chestnut trees.

The outline is now set out in white blocks installed in 1969.

A stone-faced wing by William Powell was added between 1812 and 1817, and the last building phase was the block erected between 1893 and 1896.

A further block was built in 1934 (at a cost of £130,000) on Pitt Street and Marchand Street.

The nearest building, owned by the Scottish Amicable Assurance Society, was the first such independent block designed to make its impact on Belfast.

The medieval manor house, Gawthorp Hall, was bought by the Harewood family, and John Carr was asked to design the new stable block.

This row was demolished in the 1980s to make space for a large office block. In the distance can be seen the jettied row of cottages, now offices, which identify the 1906 photograph.

Today the road bridge of 1958 blocks the view of the earlier bridges.

His brother, Francis Smith, designed the stable block (centre left) in 1737.

When he built Ayot House, Sir Leonard Lyde found that the old church had blocked his view, and began to demolish it without permission from the bishop.

We are looking eastwards from the blocked mouth of the River Char, which ends its journey to the sea by having to break through a ridge of shingle (right).

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

When this block was demolished it was replaced by a car park.

The principal residential block, which included the great hall, was situated along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

By the 16th century the old river channel had become so blocked with sandbanks that the town burghers had to enlist the help of Dutch engineers to cut a new river mouth.

The towers of the inner curtain were never completed to their intended height, and the great hall and other accommodation and domestic blocks in the inner ward were never begun.

However, there are a couple of pubs still in business, the Ship with the sailing ship pub sign and the Sun with a mounting block outside (centre).

However, there are a couple of pubs still in business, the Ship with the sailing ship pub sign and the Sun with a mounting block outside (centre).