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Wallasey Corporation favoured names of flowers: the snub-nosed 'Royal Iris' was among the 1955 fleet, and names from the past include 'Bluebell', 'Snowdrop', 'Pansy', 'Rose' and 'Thistle'.

The Royal Commercial Hotel can be seen behind it. The river is still there today, running under Penny Street and Salford.

The Royal Exchange dominates Exchange Street, which starts where the square becomes narrower.

When it was eventually filled in, the site of the dock was occupied by the headquarters of the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board, the Cunard Building and the Royal Liver Insurance Building.

The Royal Oak (now the Halifax Bank) was rebuilt in 1903. All this, together with Charles Wren's new fish shop in 1905, helped give the town centre a fresher and more modern face.

Opposite Alexander House was once the Royal Cinema.

After declaring the park open, the Prince visited a bazaar held to raise money for the new Royal Southern Hospital; he later watched 'horse-leaping' on the Parade Ground.

By the mid 1950s much had changed, and the front of the Angel and Royal Hotel indicates the reason (see G43032 and G43099).

It changed to white shirts and black shorts and socks in 1909 and in 1911 to the familiar royal blue shirts and white shorts.

During the Great War, both 'Lynx' and 'Gazelle' served as Royal Navy minesweepers, 'Gazelle' taking part in the Dardanelles campaign.

The Royal Botanic Society of Glasgow was founded a year later; the first botanic gardens were at Sandyford, but they moved to their present site in 1839- 42.

We can see the Carpenters Arms pub and Thames House behind it on the right; the former was demolished to make way for the present Henley Royal Regatta headquarters building, an exciting design by Terry

The royal apartments were situated on the west side of the quadrangle. It was here that Queen Margaret kept vigil whilst James IV fought at Flodden. James was between a rock and a hard place.

Visible and Invisible History The inventory of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments survey of the area in 1923 listed eighteen buildings other than the parish churches.

Argyll and Auchinbreck alike must have sensed that the day would be hard the moment they saw the royal standard and heard Montrose's pipers playing that quaint Cameron ditty 'Sons of dogs, come and we

edifice, decorated with portraits of the Stuart kings and the one tragic Queen of Scots and topped by a long column with, at its summit, the unicorn, holding a shield displaying the lion rampant, the royal

Apparently out of favour during the reign of Edward VI, he returned to royal favour with the accession of Queen Mary and was appointed her chamberlain and also chancellor for the south of Wales.

There were three pubs - the Royal Oak and the King's Head on the High Street, roughly where their namesakes are today, and the Clarence Arms (now the Park Hotel) on Park Road.

Beyond is Sandy Bay, Littleham's own beach, once a smugglers' cove but now the setting for one of England's largest caravan sites, often echoing with gunfire from the Royal Marines training range

Not yet an independent university, the college was one of three set up by the government; they were linked to the Royal University of Ireland, which operated as an examining body from Dublin.

The National Provincial bank is now part of NatWest Bank, itself owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

There were three pubs - the Royal Oak and the King's Head on the High Street, roughly where their namesakes are today, and the Clarence Arms (now the Park Hotel) on Park Road.

William decided to shut this 'back gate' to his kingdom by building a royal fortress at the entrance to the valley.

The 200-foot Royal Victoria Pier (left) was built out from Castle Hill at Butlers Horse, and was erected to coincide with Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.