Street names

[arry_awk]

How about 'South Accommodation Road'! Bloodydaft folks dishing out street names in those days!Mebbe they thought the poor uneducated classesmoving in to newly built accommodation, to workin factories etc, would think, 'Oh!this is our streetcos it has three words on the nameplate!'Another silly (to me) name is 'Intake'. There arevarious examples of this in Leeds and Sheffield.Reminds me of my enlisting days! 'You lads are in Intake 26', etc .Yes we were 'Taken in'!Anyone think of any other daftly named streets?

[Lilysmum]

While doing my family tree I have found that some of my rellies lived in "Mushroom St."Burmantofts what an awful address and probably a good job it's no longer there.It got me thinking that maybe it was called that because the houses were small and there wasn't mushroom in them!!! Think I've been reading too many of arry's posts.

[Trojan]

Lilysmum wrote: While doing my family tree I have found that some of my rellies lived in "Mushroom St."Burmantofts what an awful address and probably a good job it's no longer there.It got me thinking that maybe it was called that because the houses were small and there wasn't mushroom in them!!! Think I've been reading too many of arry's posts. Funny that because there used to be a row of houses on Victoria Road in Morley that were known locally as "Monkey Terrace" because they were so cramped. The Ingle council estate opposite was also dubbed "monkey town" presumably for the same reason.

[chameleon]

Trojan wrote: Lilysmum wrote: While doing my family tree I have found that some of my rellies lived in "Mushroom St."Burmantofts what an awful address and probably a good job it's no longer there.It got me thinking that maybe it was called that because the houses were small and there wasn't mushroom in them!!! Think I've been reading too many of arry's posts. Funny that because there used to be a row of houses on Victoria Road in Morley that were known locally as "Monkey Terrace" because they were so cramped. The Ingle council estate opposite was also dubbed "monkey town" presumably for the same reason. It is still there Lilysmum, in name anyway. Just looking at the old Godfrey map and there wern't too many houses actually on Mushroom Street, more the side roads running off to the north (Cambridge Street and so on), the main occupier looks to have been a factory behind what could have been a small row of houses, the Clifton Shoe Works.

[Bramley4woods]

chameleon wrote: Trojan wrote: Lilysmum wrote: While doing my family tree I have found that some of my rellies lived in "Mushroom St."Burmantofts what an awful address and probably a good job it's no longer there.It got me thinking that maybe it was called that because the houses were small and there wasn't mushroom in them!!! Think I've been reading too many of arry's posts. Funny that because there used to be a row of houses on Victoria Road in Morley that were known locally as "Monkey Terrace" because they were so cramped. The Ingle council estate opposite was also dubbed "monkey town" presumably for the same reason. It is still there Lilysmum, in name anyway. Just looking at the old Godfrey map and there wern't too many houses actually on Mushroom Street, more the side roads running off to the north (Cambridge Street and so on), the main occupier looks to have been a factory behind what could have been a small row of houses, the Clifton Shoe Works. What was there Ca. 1968/9 was a yard full of old red GPO telephone boxes, it seemed like hundreds of them !Sold to the Americans now, probably.My grandmother got moved out of her house in Sheepscar because of slum clearance and into one in Lincoln Green. Me and my Mum moved her stuff and took a shortcut up Mushroom St.

[Lilysmum]

chameleon wrote: Trojan wrote: Lilysmum wrote: While doing my family tree I have found that some of my rellies lived in "Mushroom St."Burmantofts what an awful address and probably a good job it's no longer there.It got me thinking that maybe it was called that because the houses were small and there wasn't mushroom in them!!! Think I've been reading too many of arry's posts. Funny that because there used to be a row of houses on Victoria Road in Morley that were known locally as "Monkey Terrace" because they were so cramped. The Ingle council estate opposite was also dubbed "monkey town" presumably for the same reason. It is still there Lilysmum, in name anyway. Just looking at the old Godfrey map and there wern't too many houses actually on Mushroom Street, more the side roads running off to the north (Cambridge Street and so on), the main occupier looks to have been a factory behind what could have been a small row of houses, the Clifton Shoe Works. Thanks chameleon,I stand corrected,I wrongly assumed it would be long gone. Do you know anything of Thalia St. I think that was in Burmantofts too?

[chameleon]

It is very much an industrial park/area now.The name Thalia rings a bell. I'm sure it's been mentioned before. I can't find Thalia Street but there was a Thalia Terrace opposite was is now the new Oncology Unit at St James, it would have been roughly where the white area is, opposite Beckett Terrace on this image.    

[simonm]

I grew up on a street called Poplar way.. Nowt really unusual I suppose. Just that there isn't 1 single poplar on that street...

[Si]

I noticed that the street in Yeadon called 'Football' (as mentioned on page 3 of this thread by Stevief) is marked on the OS 1908 map. Was the giant black-and-white football painted on the gable-end then painted brown with laces?!!

[Lilysmum]

Also in Yeadon is "Worlds End"just behind the Albert pub on the High st. Would be interesting to know how that street name came about.