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- cnosni
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chemimike wrote: Where and on which map exactly was this? Presumably it was access to a currier's (leather processing) firm Sounds feasable chemimike
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- Leodian
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Thanks for that polo. That's interesting. It seems to follow what is now Hirst's Yard. Edit added June 22. I now wonder if it is what is now Duncan Street and that the fine building marked may be the old Central Market? Speculating even more, as the Leeds Mercury building was around there I wonder if Currie could just have been a local expression for Mercury (Mercurrie). It's a thought! I see the map marks a 'Burley Barr', so possibly what is known as the Burley Bar Stone. I'm confused though that the map marks an Upper and a Lower head Row, as Headrow is a relatively modernish name for that road.
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Leodian wrote: Thanks for that polo. That's interesting. It seems to follow what is now Hirst's Yard. Edit added June 22. I now wonder if it is what is now Duncan Street and that the fine building marked may be the old Central Market? Speculating even more, as the Leeds Mercury building was around there I wonder if Currie could just have been a local expression for Mercury (Mercurrie). It's a thought! I see the map marks a 'Burley Barr', so possibly what is known as the Burley Bar Stone. I'm confused though that the map marks an Upper and a Lower head Row, as Headrow is a relatively modernish name for that road. I think the head(rows) have always bee there its just guildford street (which im guessing didnt exist at that time) and park lane (part of) that was absorbed into the headrow. Im not sure it would be the market either as i thought it was held on the bridge or briggate around the time of the map.