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Before the 1860s, the housing expansion for the working classes was in the form of brick-built back-to-backs, usually built around a common yard or 'court' which contained a water pump and privies

To the right, a lorry is just visible, loading coal from the Baggeridge Colliery yard.

But wool was not Kendal's only industry, and many other trades set themselves up in the many yards which lead off the main street of this southern gateway to the Lakes.

The mid 12th-century Great Hall of Robert le Bossu survives in Castle Yard; up to modern times it has been in use as an Assizes Court and Crown Court.

seafront buildings between the Obelisk and the Clock House would in time all be demolished; they were storehouses, the Trustees' Committee Rooms and the harbourmaster's house, all situated in the pier yard

During the course of the 19th century, the street filled with the homes of skilled workers, along with a variety of yards and a wash-house. The numbers of pupils fell dramatically.

This view is taken from beneath the Corn Exchange archways, which once led to the relocated cattle market some two hundred yards behind the photographer.

Behind can be seen the crammed yard of Harland and Wolff, where the 'Dynamic' had been built 14 years earlier.

This perfect walking territory is within yards of the town.

More survives on the right as far as the middle distance, where the rear yard of Marks and Spencer's has punched a substantial hole in the street frontage.

The school was nearby and the children could see the memorial from the school yard, and workmen going to Bearpark Colliery passed it on their way to work every day.

Circling the lake, which is nearly a third of a mile long and 200 yards wide in places, is a miniature railway. It deviates briefly into the parkland, as shown in this view.

This is the College Yard side of the gate, looking through to the High Street and Northgate (formerly Pump Lane).

The first boiler-making and shipbuilding yard was built by William Laird, the Liverpool-based Scotsman, in the mid 1820s. In 1829 he launched his first iron ship, a 60-ton lighter for use in Ireland.

The spectacular falls last flowed across the 300-yard crag at the end of the Ice Age.

The Post Office proprietor was R F Brierley; alongside is the entrance to the builders' and decorators' yard, F J French & Sons.

Here was the site of Quay station, moved a few hundred yards along by the time this picture was taken.

A typical tavern on Pilling Moss, the Old Ship still has a pump in the yard embossed with the initials of the Nicholson family and dated 1782.The spire of St John's church can be seen in the background

The inn had a theatre in its yard but in 1779 a proper theatre opened in Angel Street and from then on the King's Head hosted a market instead.

Since the opening of the new bypass a hundred yards upstream in 1976, a footbridge has been the only way across the river. Both The Crown and Anchor and the house beside it remain.

The road divides a couple of hundred yards further along, with the A1104 going to Mablethorpe and the A1111 to Sutton on Sea.

An entrance at the side of the building leads to the original stable yard.

The leafless tree is a venerable false acacia, which was a feature of the playground for many years, while the tree on the left still stands in the garage yard of Tabor Court.

From suburban West Bridgford we move east along the A52 to Radcliffe, its village centre some 300 yards south of the River Trent.