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Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which at one time employed 12,000 people. The sheer size of the building indicates the importance of the railway to the town.

Opposite the houses is a very busy horse-training yard - well over twenty horses go for walks down the local country lanes.

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

The distance between the building lines on Lord Street is 88 yards, which makes it much wider than either Union Street, Aberdeen, or the Headrow, Leeds.

In 1987, despite vigorous opposition, the gates were moved a few hundred yards to the left to make way for the access road to the new Ken Marriott Sports Centre.

The old bridge had been a few yards downstream, with a pavement running under St Magnus's tower.

Note the engine shed and the load gauge in the goods yard. The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966.

The street had many small inns for the market customers, built on plots in yards behind the street.

Though it was less than one mile long, it was expensive to build, requiring three bridges, a viaduct and a 282-yard-long tunnel under a burial ground, the cutting of which entailed the digging up of numerous

The distance between the building lines on Lord Street is 88 yards, which makes it much wider than either Union Street, Aberdeen, or the Headrow, Leeds.

Michael Ventris, the great archaeologist and decipherer of Minoan 'Linear B' script, is buried in the church yard at the end. He died in 1956 at a mere 34 years of age.

Opposite the houses is a very busy horse-training yard - well over twenty horses go for walks down the local country lanes.

Like Kendal, Penrith has a series of yards behind the street buildings which were used as an added defence against Scottish raiders.

The central archway with its oriel window above led into the inn yard, where there is a long brick range dated 1776.

Construction was finally completed in the early 1850s and, at over 600 yards, it is the longest railway viaduct in the country.

Beyond it is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses -the livestock market was held in its yard.

The folly was constructed using stone from the tower of St Lawrence's church, which used to stand on the site now occupied by Royal William Yard in Stonehouse.

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

The church- yard was levelled and laid out as a garden of remembrance in 1956. A new building, now McDonalds, stands behind the church.

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

In 1939 an RAF bomber en route for the airfield at nearby Windrush from Andover narrowly missed Lower Slaughter and crash-landed near Upper Slaughter in a field 50 yards from the church.

The pump in the foreground, dating from 1796, is in what was the prison yard.

HMS Elephant, Nelson's 74-gun flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen, was built here by George Parsons and launched at his yard in 1786.

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.