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Two of the courts are still used on a daily basis.

Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library. The tall building opposite was the Town Hall, which had lost its colonnaded front when it became a shop.

The Red Lion Hotel beyond it has gone, now replaced by Red Lion Court, and Mrs Odell now runs the new post office (to the left of the chapel) - the old one closed in 2000.

The town once had a court of 'pied poudre'; here litigants could settle their differences immediately they reached market - in other words, while they still had dusty (or powdered) feet.

Just beyond, joining Third and New Courts of St John's College, is the Bridge of Sighs, its Gothic design unashamedly borrowed from the covered bridge of the same name in Venice.

The second court contains the President's Lodge, one of the few half-timbered Tudor college buildings.

Bell Court was originally the name of one of the six manors which made up medieval Bidford.

The second court contains the President's Lodge, one of the few half-timbered Tudor college buildings.

The mansion in the park was originally known as Heath House, and later came to be called Studley Court.

The post-war tennis courts on the left are no longer there, and the grounds are now the venue for events such as open-air dramas and historical re-enactments.

The Norman castle building involved demolishing over 160 Anglo-Saxon houses; since the Middle Ages it has served as a prison and assize courts. This concludes our brief tour of Lincoln itself.

Queen Street which dated from the earlier decades of the 19th century, including the Mechanics’ Institute and Athenaeum (1835); the Dispensary with its Doric demi-columns (1826); and the County Court

Opposite are the Assize Courts by Robert Smirke.

Opposite are the Assize Courts by Robert Smirke.

Opposite are the Assize Courts by Robert Smirke.

The view from the tennis court shows the little-seen back elevation of Holme Hall.

It remained the seat of the chief courts of the Cinque Ports, and returned two members of Parliament up until 1832.

The nineteenth hole is to be found in Nether Court, a free-standing neo-Jacobean mansion by Percy Stone.

By 1713 the Chester Room of the Kings Head was being used by the Court of Attachments of Waltham Forest, which met to decide on minor disputes.

This view of the south side of the cathedral is taken from within the Vicars Court, where the vicars lived.

A further extension to the park, created in 1930, included the tennis courts seen here on the left, as well as a paddling pool and a children's playground.

The ball-finialled gate piers belong to the Crown Court's forecourt, a sedate Italianate stone building somewhat dwarfed by Hall and Warwick's confident Shire Hall built for the County Council.

There is documentary evi- dence that the Ship Inn on the left dates from at least 1600, and its cobbled court- yard remains today thanks to a preservation order.

When Charles I moved with his court to York, the royal printing press was housed here. Over the years, many owners and many changes of use left the building in a ramshackle state.