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Farrer's second son, Major Henry William Francis Blackburne Farrer if the Royal Field Artillery, would be killed at the age of 24 by a German shell in France, only days before the end of the Great War

The Royal Oak is on the north side of the street (right). The busy mix of cyclists and cars is typical of a 1950s street scene. The closest car is a Morris 10 (left).

The third Royal Exchange Building is peeping through the murk on the left of our picture, and Sinclairs Oyster Bar is just in front of it.

Lord Trenchard, father of the modern Royal Air Force, chose the site right in the middle of the Lincolnshire countryside so as to be as far away as possible from the temptations of the big cities.

They were either left intact or re-set when Captain George Fanshawe of the Royal Engineers rebuilt all the other walls of the Cobb with smooth Portland stone in 1825-26.

An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.

At the junction of Buckingham and Bicester Roads is the Royal Bucks Hospital.

The Royal Victoria pier was opened in 1899; it enabled Tenby to be included in what was then a newly-created passenger service along the coast.

The Royal Oak is on the north side of the street (right). The busy mix of cyclists and cars is typical of a 1950s street scene.

This end of Upper Parliament Street, with the Theatre Royal halfway along and out of sight on the left, has seen many changes since the 1950s.

In the centre of the building is an interesting octagonal lantern with the royal coat of arms above the doorway.The plaque beneath it records the work of Bishop Seth Ward, a friend of Christopher

Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.

During the 18th century, Liverpool merchants were practised in the noble arts of customs evasion, especially the royal duty due on tobacco.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent. There is also an underground labyrinth of caves.

Their local interpreter John Russell made such an impression on the royal couple that they took him to the court of Henry VII, where he became a leading courtier.

The Fish Dock was built in 1893, when it served the biggest fishing fleet in the world; this fact might seem to be contradicted by this preponderance of merchant vessels berthed in the Royal Dock.

Built in 1826 to designs of Samuel Beazley, the architect of the Theatre Royal in Dublin, they were needlessly demolished by the Council in 1947.

The Parliament Hall is close to the Inner Court and James VI's Chapel Royal.

It was the only fortress in Scotland that flew the Stuart royal flag after Charles's defeat at Worcester in 1651.

On the junction with Westgate Street is the Theatre Royal, one of only three surviving Regency theatres in the country, built in 1819 by William Wilkins, architect of the National Gallery.

Both the nearby British Legion building and the Royal Buildings are also his.

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.

Opposite is the Royal Oak Hotel (centre), and the Wilts and Dorset Bank (far right) had yet to be absorbed into Lloyds.