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The building seen here is properly called the Royal Free Museum & Library; it opened on 9 January 1850, and was the first unconditionally free municipal public library in the United Kingdom.

The Tennis Ground (near left) and the Royal Standard (left) are prominent; the Bonded Store of His Majesty's Custom and Excise was the biggest building (centre right).

In the time of James I the leafy grounds where this celebrated royal palace now stands grew mulberry bushes for the silk industry.The palace was built in its original form in the early 1700s and

The Royal Beacon Hotel was built c1810 at the end of the fashionable Beacon Terrace.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

He had been in command of the Royal Engineers at Gravesend from 1865-71, and was responsible for the construction of the protective forts along the Thames.

Eventually the West Cliff Hotel appeared, and the Princess Royal Hotel (right) was built here half a century later in the 1920s.

A year after its opening, on 28 August 1851, Queen Victoria's Royal Train crossed the viaduct as it took the royal family to Balmoral Castle.

The Royal Café (extreme left) is now the Café Royale. The Café Regent in the far distance is no more - the whole building has gone in a seafront redevelopment.

The Esplanade stretches south-westwards fromn the Georgian and Victorian apartments and hotels of Gloucester Terrace (right), with Royal Terrace dominated by the Royal Hotel (centre), to a glimpse of the

Locals were most surprised when it was claimed by Lord Haw Haw to have been sunk during the war, when it was known as HMS Royal Arthur and was a Royal Navy training camp.

On the left is the Theatre Royal (1864), originally the Royal Alexandra Theatre. This was a cinema from 1921 to 1976, when it closed and was demolished.

Locals were most surprised when it was claimed by Lord Haw Haw to have been sunk during the war, when it was known as HMS Royal Arthur and was a Royal Navy training camp.

Beyond Crescent Terrace lies the Royal Hotel corner, which is in North Terrace.

The magnificent entrance to the Royal Institution.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

It is a strange coincidence that the only two royal visits to Guisborough were made by the same branch of our royal family and to the same building in the town.

The street is unusually wide and spacious for Durham; it was further extended in the 1960s, when road development saw the demise of the Waterloo Hotel, the building beyond the Royal County

15Southern England KENT left: CHATHAM, The Gordon Memorial and the Royal Engineers

Almost certainly a race or regatta is in progress, as the distinctive boats of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club pose gracefully against the wooded shoreline.

This used to be a centre for entertainment, with the old Theatre Royal (1868) on the left - it was later a cinema from 1921.

This was the 25-bedroom Royal George.

Nearby stands the Royal Marine Hotel (26187, centre, and

The Forest of Dean was an extensive royal hunting ground between the Wye and the Severn, extending as far north as Ross and Gloucester.