Concreting the back street

[dodo]

The street in front of our house is where the car pulls up.......not the road. Think it could come from the Irish word sráid, which is translated into English as street. Many words don't have direct translations.

[Smokin Joe]

A back street and a yard are 2 completely different beasts

I agree.  A back yard would tend to have walls surrounding it, like a row of terraced houses in a city might have.

Mine on the other hand runs into the back lawn, well into the kerbs actually - but you know what I mean.

[5 Sams]

Concrete/Tarmac surface at the front or back of the house was always "the street" round our way.


Don't the yanks call their garden "the yard"?

[heganboy]

Don't the yanks call their garden "the yard"?

Aye, but they're strange beings

[ludermor]

Heganboy
that creepy crawly is freaking me out!!

[Main Street]

Feck that Hegan I nearly smashed my screen trying to get that bug

[john mcgill]

If that's an ant, did you know that it will survive on full power in a microwave.  Was in today's London Times