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Opposite is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses, in whose yard the livestock market used to be held.

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

We are looking out across the deal and timber yards to the cathedral and downtown Bristol.

The road rises gently before swinging to the left into the station yard.

Beyond is the gable of a builder's yard, now a dwelling.

Along the river frontage are boat yards, moorings and maltings.

This open space at the junction of the roads leading to Hitchin, Wheathampstead and London was large enough to support the open-air market, which stretched the 100 yards through the middle of the picture

By that time, Blackpool's nearby rival Southport had had a pier for three years; it was 1,200 yards long and capable of handling excursion steamers.

The cobbled yard and upper floor gallery are typical of a coaching inn, and once echoed to the sound of horses' hooves as they dashed in through the narrow archway.

The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Gone too are the once numerous pilot boats and boat yards.

A number of smaller businesses have built up around this pleasant village, some evidence of which is seen in the yard in the centre of the photograph.

The course of 6,200 yards was originally planned by Tom Morris, and later re-arranged and improved by Messrs Colt and Taylor.

As the sign shows, in 100 yards the road joins the busy A606 Melton-Oakham Road.

The water is less than a yard deep, and all the bays and islands are named in J M Barrie style.

the coastline, our seaside resort tour peters out with busy Victorian terraces and the taller 1927 building on the right; beyond is the footbridge across the now dismantled railway, with the station yard

This was originally constructed in stone in 1853 as a 250-yard-long working quayside for vessels trading in barley, linseed cake, corn, timber, salt, malt and manure, rather than for holidaymakers

There is documentary evi- dence that the Ship Inn on the left dates from at least 1600, and its cobbled court- yard remains today thanks to a preservation order.

All the stone used in the building came from the ruins of the abbey, a hundred yards away.

At this date the building of the new 12-arched viaduct across the Tamar is nearly finished, and the construction yard can be seen below on the Devon (right) bank.

The covered way at the side of J Todd's Grocer and Tea Dealer was built for the vicars-choral, so that they could cross from where they lived in Bedern to the Minster Yard without being molested.

Watermouth was not always so tranquil, however - the great tidal surge of 1910 which so severely damaged the seafront at Ilfracombe is recorded to have thrown ships like these hundreds of yards

Gordon Ince's gents' outfitter's next door remains, whilst the Fox (beyond) has closed - its yard has been turned into a precinct.

Southport has the country's longest pleasure pier, which runs for 1,211 yards over the marine boating lake and sands to the sea with attractions that included shows and amusement arcades, as well as a