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By this date, Whitby had five hotels featured in the Dunlop Guide: the Angel, the Royal (with 172 beds and garaging for twenty automobiles), the Metropole, the Custom House, and the seventy-bed West Cliff

This was the pottery works of Charles Brannam, makers of Royal Barum Ware. Now demolished, the company operate a modern - and busy - factory on the edge of town.

The barracks were taken over by the Royal Navy and finally demolished in the 1960s. The distinctive central tower was hit during the Second World War.

The Botanic Gardens were primarily for the benefit of members of the Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow, who established the original gardens near Sauchiehall Street, but the general public were allowed

The Salford Royal Technical School in Peel Park is pictured just after it opened.

Caroline, Princess of Wales, bathed in the sea here while stay- ing at Emsworth in 1805, and the town had thoughts of becoming a royal water- ing place.

The pier was built in 1891 - the year of this picture - opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel and immediately in front of the former Baths, described by a gushing contemporary account as 'such that the most

Watched over by their officers, the Royal Dragoons practice combat exercises using their swords.

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

In 1782 the man-o-war 'Royal George' heeled over just offshore on a calm day.

Yarmouth's attractions include firm and extensive sands for bathers, a marine parade, three piers, the Theatre Royal, and an aquarium.

Edward later gifted the royal palace of Enfield to his favourite half-sister Elizabeth - later Queen Elizabeth I.

This ancient fortress has served as arsenal, prison and royal residence, and is comprised of an irregular mass of buildings erected at various periods down the centuries.

The cottage was an alehouse prior to the building of the Royal Goat Hotel. It is now a National Trust shop and information centre. Note the old petrol pump on the extreme right.

Next to the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society greengrocer`s shop on the right is Belvedere Baptist Church, advertising its Harvest Festival, while opposite is another greengrocer - but today

Henry II's great 12th-century keep stands sentinel over Orford, built to guard the coast where Flemish mercenaries were brought ashore by the Earl of Norfolk, whose castles far out-numbered royal castles

Situated half-way between Edinburgh and Stirling, Linlithgow became a favourite royal residence, though during the wars with the English it was often under siege or counter-siege.

But this picture does give us an uncluttered view of the Grosvenor Hotel, while on the right, Brown, Holmes & Co, silk mercers to both Her Majesty and HRH The Princess of Wales, sport the royal

The much-loved aircraft carrier 'Ark Royal' spent some years here prior to being towed away for scrap in 1979.

The Princes Gardens had been the site of the first temporary military encampment in November 1853 when a detachment of Royal Engineers began assessing the locality's suitability for the

The village probably dates from Saxon times, and it was a royal manor of King Athelstan, Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror.

Frith's photographer was standing outside No 6 Royal Road, where Vincent Van Gogh had stayed.

The stucco Royal Hotel at the right, on Cornfield Road corner, was replaced by the present NatWest bank in about 1930.

Caroline, Princess of Wales, bathed in the sea here while staying at Emsworth in 1805, and the town had thoughts of becoming a royal watering place.