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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.

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

Alcohol is also well represented here: the house on the right was the maltster's, the maltings being in the yard behind, while two other houses in this view were once pubs.

The Merchants' Counting House, down Swale's Yard (right), was the meeting place for countless entrepreneurs from 1400 onwards; recently the building has been restored to an atmospheric pub.

The houses on the left were removed in the 1960s to make room for Eastern Avenue and Black Swan Yard car park.

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

This view was taken looking east from Bridge Street past the bridge across the mill stream (the river itself is out of shot a hundred yards away to the right), which was dug for the abbey in the 10th century

A few years before the time of this photograph its yard had been filled with derelict cars, and it was a popular scavenging ground for spare parts.

The Westminster Bank (right) has taken over from Ellwoods, and the trees have begun to grow in the front yard to the Congregational Church.

The Fraternity of the Holy Cross built the two bridges, the causeway across Nag's Head Island, and then the long causeway that runs south for over a thousand yards across the flood plain to Culham

The view is north- eastwards from the tower of St Mary's Church to the double sidings of the goods yard (centre) and site of James Panton's Swanage Brewery which was demolished in 1893.

A hire boat yard now occupies the site around the dyke where the dinghies are moored. The car and charabanc parked on the opposite bank show that Acle was an attraction for trippers between the wars.

Albert Square adjoined the Town Yard, land that the corporation owned, and which was already being viewed as a site for a new Town Hall.

St Patrick's is about 400 yards from Christchurch. It is the largest church in Ireland, with a 143ft tower (Minot's tower) of 1370. The 100ft spire was added in the 17th century by George Simple.

Conveniently overlooking the sheep market, the inn had sheep pens in its rear yard.

It is 800 yards long and has a road for foot passengers, who can enjoy the freshness of the air and the sublime vistas of Cadair Idris.

These were 15th- and 16th-century timber-framed buildings with jetties and archways through their inn yards.

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

We are looking at the leeward side from the entrance to the church- yard. Note how many standing headstones there are now, only four years after picture 21072.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

This single-arched stone bridge is situated a few hundred yards to the north of St Machar's Cathedral, and crosses a gorge of the River Don.

It is 800 yards long and has a road for foot passengers, who can enjoy the freshness of the air and the sublime vistas of Cadair Idris.