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On 31 July 1833, the royal yacht 'Emerald' was towed into Lyme by the steam packet HMS 'Messenger' to meet the royal party.

Many servants of the royal household are buried in its churchyard.

The tolbooth, with its projecting clock, is one of the most famous landmarks on the Royal Mile and dates from 1591.

St Vincent's Place was right in the commercial heart of the city with the National Bank, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and the Athenaeum club all nearby.

This exquisite Royal church was designed and erected by the architect James Gibbs in the 1720s.The expansive portico is generally admired, but the heavy steeple is said to lack elegance.

At this time the 20-bed Ship & Royal Hotel on Clifton Street (the telephone number was 186) was one of two Lytham hotels recommended by the AA. The other one was the Clifton Arms.

Donald Wolfit and his wife Rosalind Iden were appearing at the Theatre Royal in a series of Shakespearean plays.

The Royal Hotel is an impressive brick and stone building, designed by the virtually unknown architect Robert Chaplin in 1826; he employed a large porch of paired Greek Doric columns to impress those arriving

They were part of a batch of 200 built by Avro for the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and still carry their military markings, although the name on the side indicates some form of civilian activity.

High above the East Cliff promenade are the turrets and flags of The Royal Bath Hotel, one of the town's leading resorts at this time.

Important visitors to the 1927 Derby included members of the Royal Family and Captain Lindbergh, hero of trans-Atlantic flight.

The demand for peacetime army training led to the building of the Royal Military College early in the 19th century.

The scene is dominated by a colossal cast iron lion weighing 16 tons, erected to commemorate 300 men of the Royal Berkshire Regiment who died in the Afghan campaigns of 1879-80.

Until 1279 a Royal Mint of the Norman and Angevin kings stood on the site.

A Royal Blue coach bound for Liverpool pulls into Market Street. The Cotswold-stone Dorchester Hotel, seen on the extreme left of the photograph, opened in 1947.

Blackwater, which shares its name with that of the river, lies just to the south of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Blackwater, which shares its name with that of the river, lies just to the south of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

In its church is a memorial to Edmund Smith and his family, all drowned in the wreck of the 'Royal Charter' in 1859, as they journeyed home from Australia.

The Bull was once a coaching inn for the Royal Mail coach to Oxford. Early this century, much of Streatley was owned by the famous Morrell brewing family.

This was the fashionable place to shop and eat out; there were several highly recommended restaurants, including Ferguson & Forrester, Littlejohns and the Royal British.

On the right is horse-drawn cart of the Royal Mail.

A prominent monument inside commemorates Wedgwood Allen of the Royal Flying Corps as a knight in armour.

The Queen's Gate led directly into the royal inner ward and was approached by means of a ramp and drawbridge.

Here, the Theatre Royal is closing the vista to the north. Until 1864, this was a narrow alley called Sheep Lane, but after demolishing many old properties this street was created.