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I would guess they would mostly use the imperial system as that what was (and still is in a lot of cases) still used in the UK 🙂 

Some of the example you cite aren’t using units of measurements though? Maybe Im being picky? 🙂

“Meter” as in “Meter Maid” refers to a parking meter, not the unit of length. Cups and feet in the American covers are referring to physical objects (actual feet and cups of tea), not measurements. Yard in Ob-la-di-ob-la-da is referring to a yard behind a house, not the length etc.

I grew up in Manchester (home of Coronation Street!) and lots of houses there have yards like Ron says. We had a garden because we had grass, but my mate who lived in a terraced house had a paved yard with an outside toilet.

The first house me and my husband lived in had a communal cobbled yard with washing lines strung everywhere 🙂

Ahhh Girl said
When you think of Desmond and Molly”s children playing in the yard, do you think of a big, grassy, fenced yard or a paved area?  

I think of a yard like the picture @Ron Nasty posted above. That sort of yard is pretty common in Liverpool, especially in areas like Wavertree (where George grew up) and Penny Lane and the surrounding streets. I know Paul wrote this song and his childhood homes all had gardens (with grass!), but he would definitely be familiar with the sort of paved yards like Ron’s pictures. He probably would have been pretty familiar with Coronation Street as it was on tv during the 60s and at that time there were only 3 channels in the UK (as far as I know, I wasn’t alive then, but when I was a small child in the early 80s there were only 3 channels and ITV was the newest of them – and it had been broadcasting Corrie since 1960) so not a lot of choice about what to watch!

[Image Can Not Be Found]Houses with yards <——– This is what I think of when I think of a yard. These sort of houses are extremely common in Liverpool (although I think the photo is houses in Cheshire, not too far from Liverpool). Those wee buildings in each yard would have originally had the outside toilet in them as indoor toilets weren’t common when the terraced housing was built.