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The Royal Mail Steamer 'Adder' made the link with Glasgow by sailing to Ardrossan. This avoided the long journey along the Clyde Estuary - the route was completed by rail.

Besides the vast acreage of excavated docks, there were numerous riverside wharfs, from the grandeur of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge to this rather less grand one near the west entrance to the Royal

The wheeled cart in the centre of the picture bears the crest of the Royal Mail.

The bay windowed building is Hampton House, whilst the Royal Oak, on the other side of St Ann`s Lane, continues to provide refreshment to the boating fraternity.

The Royal Engineers warned that dangers remained but town traders eagerly declared the town safe.

Today, the chapel, with its distinctive green dome, is all that remains of the old Royal Victoria Military Hospital, opened in 1868 and demolished in 1966.

Both firms produced silk products for the royal family, and Warners have woven velvet for every coronation since that of Edward VII.

We are outside The Swan & Royal.

Behind this cinema is the magnificent Theatre Royal of 1905. Bingo was played here in its latter years, but it now lies vacant, forlorn and awaiting a new use.

For 300 years it was a Dominican friary; then in 1541 Henry VIII founded a school by Royal Charter. Finally in 1855 it became a public school by Act of Parliament.

However, Berkeley was forced to surrender both castle and his royal prisoner into the hands of Thomas Gurney and Lord Maltrevers.

This dock, the largest of all the docks, was officially opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on a royal visit on 13 July 1905.

17th-century house, the building is essentially a drastic remodelling of 1814 by Sir Henry Halford, formally Henry Vaughan, a successful medical practitioner whose patients included members of the royal

The Castle remained a royal palace for centuries afterwards. It eventually became a private residence, and was left to the nation in 1974.

Oakley was within the medieval royal hunting forest of Bernwood - the king's hunting lodge cum palace was at Brill nearby. The name of the village means 'a clearing in the oak woods'.

In the 17th century the building that is now The White Hart Royal was a manor house, and Charles I stayed there in July 1644 after the Battle of Marston Moor.

Opposite the bus station was the 980-seat Theatre Royal (1873-1955), which was remodelled by Frank Matcham in 1913.

Generations of Royal Air Force recruits will recognise the huts and airship sheds beyond the cabbage field. The sheds were constructed during World War I for the development of airships.

Royal Arcade on the right is the oldest arcade in the city, which links The Hayes and St Mary Street.

As at Royal Lytham, the flat, spacious grasslands and sandy hollows were perfect for the development of Fairhaven Golf Links.

Stoker stayed at 6 Royal Crescent. As for the cannon (right), it was put there after the Great War and by the Second World War it had gone. Rumour said it had been buried for security.

In 1825 he designed Leicester Gaol, and the now- demolished Theatre Royal, Leicester, with Samuel Beazley in 1836.

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

Dedicated to St Andrew, this church is surprisingly large because William de Greystoke obtained a royal licence in 1358 to establish a college here to replace a simple cruciform church.