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For centuries, the church had preached that God approved the hierarchy of 'the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate', but that teaching, too, would change.

A motte and bailey castle, complete with its outer bailey and extensive village outworks, define the origins of the settlement.

on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for the new structure which was replacing the old town hall on the corner of Castle

Forster Green clearly thought the length of the street was the right distance from his Castle Place headquarters to site another branch.

The stags are the insignia of Tring, and the crown in the crest is a reference to Berkhamsted Castle.

The tower house is of the L-plan type and dates from the same period as that at Craigmillar Castle. The tower is separated from the rest of the fortress by a deep ditch, wall and gatehouse.

Farther east, at Balcastle (from the Gaelic 'baile chaisteil', meaning 'castle town') are the remains of a Pictish fort.

Auchinbreck's musketeers, who had been positioned on the ramparts of the castle, were happy enough to surrender on terms.

All parts could be reached from this corner, and its popular name of Castle Junction had become fixed. The 114 cars and 1,000 horses were the property of the Belfast Street Tramway Company.

the 2nd Earl of Shelburne in the 1750s, was entirely cased in Denner Hill stone, a very hard silicaceous stone dug a mile or so north of the town, and also used by Wyatt in his work at Windsor Castle

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.

Older residents still refer to the Castle Street and Kings Road campuses as the Boys' and Girls' Schools.

These were also the days when building sand castles, watching Punch and Judy shows, searching for strange shells and swimming in the sea added up to the perfect holiday.

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.

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.

Her sister ship, 'Reindeer' (1193 grt), entered service on 3 August 1897, and one month later, whilst entering Weymouth, she succeeded in ramming the Bournemouth & South Coast SPCo's 'Brodick Castle

A Roman Catholic church was built in Castle Street in 1900, but it was replaced by the present St Augustine's on Amersham Hill in 1955.

Some of the prisoners fared better because they were held in the relatively healthier environment of Portchester Castle.

Her boyfriend, Abraham Thornton of Castle Bromwich, was arrested and charged with her murder, having been seen with her You may recognise the family name Riland and recall that Plantsbrook School

(The stone he threw still lies within the walls of Lincoln Castle). Havelock gains the reputation of being the strongest man in England.

'With the assistance of a telescope Windsor Castle, Frant Church, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunstable Downs, Ditchling Beacon and the spires and towers of forty-one churches can be seen.'

century, but until 1900 on the south side of Paul's Row, the High Street, and Easton Street the burgage plots ran down to the banks of the River Wye, while to the other side they ran north to Castle