Two Seater Yard Highgate

Yard 126 Highgate, also known as Two Seater Yard no longer exists but was between 124 Highgate (now demolished and replaced by The Mint Works - previously the Cumbria County Council Careers/Conexxions and before that an insurance company) and 128 Highgate (previously the Highgate Hotel, now flats).

The area the yard covered now forms the car park entrance off Highgate, the car park and part of the Kendal Squash Club

From Curwen 1900 (p147)

No 126

Here was born, in the year 1823, the eminent engineer, William Johnson. Having early displayed a taste for mechanical pursuits, a situation was obtained for him at the cotton manufactory of Messrs. Ainsworth, of Preston. There he remained studying the structure of the various machines within his reach, improving his knowledge of practical engineering, until the year 1843, when he entered the office of a civil engineer and devoted his life to that profession. Contributing articles to the mechanical papers of the day, he soon attracted the attention of the editor of the Glasgow Practical Mechanic's and Engineer's Magazine, who offered him the sub-editorship of that journal in 1845. That periodical having been given up in 1848, Johnson, young as he was, had the enterprise to start the Practical Mechanic's Journal entirely on his own responsibility, which he carried on with very marked success for many years. Soon after he undertook the business of a Patent Agent, and as this rapidly increased and required more attention than he could possibly give to it, he took into partnership his younger brother, John Henry Johnson, who opened a branch office in London. William died at Glasgow on the loth day of June, 1864; and his brother, who for the last forty years had carried on and increased the business, has only just passed away in the month of March, 1900.