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A house has since been built in the yard. To the right is the Grape Vine of c1520, with 20th-century pargetting. The White Horse, beyond, is 18th-century with a mansard roof.

is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'.

This view looks through the entrance towards the inn yard, all of which survives to this day.

The entire town was dependent on the yard, and when it went into liquidation in 1933 it left Jarrow with the highest unemployment rate in the country.

In the end, the tunnel, which can be seen in the distance, was reduced in length to just over eighty yards.

In the end, the tunnel, which can be seen in the distance, was reduced in length to just over eighty yards.

In the end, the tunnel, which can be seen in the distance, was reduced in length to just over eighty yards.

Opposite the church is the Hoo, a large rambling house built in 1902.The Post Office proprietor was R F Brierley; alongside is the entrance to the builders' and decorators' yard, F J French & Sons

Stevens's Boatyard on the east end of Nag's Head Island also incorporated the landing stage for the Crown and Thistle Hotel in Bridge Street, some hundred yards away from the river.

It is remarkable that it still survives, albeit moved a hundred yards west to the other side of the Thurrock Yacht Club, where it continues to moulder gently on the beach.

The first steam-paddle driven vessels, the 'Ivanhoe' and 'Warspite', arrived in Weymouth as early as 1827.The ship pictured here is probably one of their successors, built by the famous Lairds yard

To the left is Kilburn Yard. From 1818-78 this was the prison, large enough to accommodate 96 prisoners, but it was little used; later it became stables.

Below the second window of the building marked 'Restaurant' (the fifth building from the left) is the opening to Bank Yard, named after the Old Bank which occupied the building in 1792

At Hatfield it took five years to reach the Barnsley bed at 852 yards below the surface.

Walter Vavasour built the block of buildings forming the Walk in the early 1800s, partly on the site of the yard of Eagle Inn.

Beyond the bridge, the sailing ship mast on the left is as Westacott's shipbuilding yard; those on the right are tied up at Barnstaple Quay. A small transom-sterned barge is beached by the slipway.

Nearby is Angel Yard; Barlow Road broke through here some years later.

The tunnel is 3075 yards (2811 metres) long and was a considerable feat of engineering when it opened in 1805.

From 1945, the number of people employed by the shipbuilding yards in Wallasey and Birkenhead declined and a number of associated industries closed.

The dominant row of shops has been modernised, but the bus station (centre right), which opened on September 1952, has now been moved a hundred yards to the east.

The Poultry Sale Yard entrance on Market Hill is the wide doorway beyond the awning, right of centre.

It was said that there was 'somehow a greater lightness and gaiety' here than you would find a few hundred yards further where the city workers toiled 'with their hurried walk and preoccupied look'.

Here, in Arguments Yard, the house on the right is derelict, the stone stairs have seen better days and the outside toilet looks ready to collapse.

The Square or old Market Place of Elham adjoins the church yard on the north side, and a weekly market was held here until the 18th century.