Two “rare” paintings by LS Lowry have sold for a combined sum of more than £1.8m.

A painting of Senhouse Street in Maryport, Cumbria, went under the hammer at Christie’s auction house and sold for £882,000 on Wednesday.

A second famous work by the artist – ‘Going to the Station’ and set in Manchester – had a lower guide price but sold for £945,000.

Laurence Stephen Lowry, who died in 1976, is known for his depictions of working-class life in industrial parts of northern England.