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Before becoming engulfed in the sprawl of Sittingbourne, Milton was a royal manor in its own right.

Henley's first regatta was held in 1839, but it did not receive its Royal title until 1851. A River and Rowing Museum opened in the town in 1998.

On 10 September 1819, the Prince Regent came to stay at the recently opened William's Royal Hotel. As a result the hotel was renamed The Regent.

The police could not cope, and 300 soldiers of the Royal Berkshire regiment had to be drafted in to restore order.

In 1938, however, a large Royal Ordnance factory was opened, working day and night to supply munitions for World War II.

The adjacent Royal Engineers Museum contains many Gordon relics, including the folding chair he used at Khartoum, and a yellow jacket given to him by the Emperor of China.

It died out following a Royal Proclamation in 1615 prohibiting the use of wood as an industrial fuel.

Among those already occupied or well on their way to full occupation are the prestigious West One and Royal Plaza developments in the fashionable 'Devonshire Quarter' around West Street and upper

Queen Victoria had been known to visit the town during her long reign, which helped sustain its title of Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Both the Crescent (built 1780-84) and the Great Stables (built 1789) were designed by Carr for the fifth Duke of Devonshire; the Great Stables are somewhat better known in their present guise as the Royal

On the right is the shot tower, which stood in today's open space between the Royal Festival Hall, which stands on the site of C & J Denny's Darsfield Wharf on the right, and the Hayward Gallery alongside

We see HMS 'Bellisle' riding at anchor like a 'floating metal fortress' in the River Mersey as part of that same Royal Navy visit.

Boots the chemist had built their original store on the corner opposite the Royal Hotel at the bottom of Market Street.

The whitewashed Royal Oak (right) has a recessed centre to provide a small forecourt for benches; beyond is No 24, a good Georgian house with a mansard roof.

The remoteness of this area led to its being chosen as the location for the branch of the Royal Observatory responsible for carrying out magnetic observations.

The Isle of Wight was made fashionable in the 19th century when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert made it a favourite holiday destination for the royal family.

The royal coach heads out across the courtyard of the Palace bound for The Mall. A throng of carriages waits to join the procession across London.

Up the road on the right beyond the pub now stand Crouch's garage, the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Kent House and the Ashford bowling alley.

The Royal Edward dock had a water area of 25 acres and a graving dock 875ft in length.

This was financed by John Passmore Edwards, who also gave an endowment fund entrusted to the governors of the Royal Cornwall Infirmary in Truro.

This was the Royal Mail Steamer plying to the Isle of Man; it had just left the quay at Belfast at 4pm.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

There was once a royal hunting forest next to Whitewell, and that brought in the aristocracy of past times.

The royal coach heads out across the courtyard of the Palace bound for The Mall. A throng of carriages waits to join the procession across London.