We love a good ginnel at Northern Soul. But, depending on where you’re from, there are all sorts of words for what essentially amounts to an alleyway, including jennel, snicket, vennel, gennel, jitty and jetty.

So, if you have a favourite ginnel, please share it with us. You can do this via our Twitter, Facebook or Instagram pages and your snaps will be featured on our weekly ginnel photo gallery. Go on, you know you want to. Meanwhile, here’s a gallery of the first set of ginnels in #ShowUsYourGinnels.

Image accreditation:

Lancashire window image by R F Hunt

View down Lancaster’s Castle Hill images by Stephen Longstaffe

Barnard Castle images by Judy Sutherland

Salford image by Bill Ayres

Marple image by David Nolan

John Rylands Library image by Chris Payne

Ginnel with guard dog image by Tom Robinson