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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

At the time it was Liverpool's largest dock covering 26,793 square yards; it could hold, as we can see, a considerable amount of shipping.

The brick-faced building with arched windows was the Angel Inn, which had an orchard and yard where the customers played quoits.

The row of four whitewashed cottages in the foreground leads up to the Vicarage Lane turning on the right; the lane crosses the river about 200 yards north of the Overflow, a weir at Waterford Marsh.

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

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.

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

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.

Circling the lake, which is nearly a third of a mile long and 200 yards wide in places, is a miniature railway.

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.