Hi Davedrave.
Thanks for that.
That was a type of 'street' that I had considered as the term 'yard' was so often given to these little, almost alleyways, wasn't it, especially in the bigger cities, as with the term 'wynd' in Scotland. Being 'incapacitated' he was likely to be impoverished, even though it was in the near-mid 1900s, and these places existed for so long. Gran never spoke much about her family, not did my father, so I think they would have been self-conscious about his circumstances. We lived in NW Kent.