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

A house has since been built in the yard.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The ornate façade of the Bull Hotel with its massive lanterns, on the right, conceals a Georgian galleried yard.

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 ornate façade of the Bull Hotel with its massive lanterns, on the right, conceals a Georgian galleried yard.

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.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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