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Here’s Edmund Street. It’s only a theory but....... The building marked “A” is the Buffalo Inn at No. 1 Clay Street. Working on the assumption that the odd numbers run along the south side of the streets, I reckon that 49 could be where I’ve marked it.
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And here's an overlay on Google Earth.
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wiggy wrote: just watched a programme with michael palin,on the last hours of world war1.a guy called george ellison from edmond street,off york street was the last british casualty.can anyone throw up a map of the area,circa 1918? I saw this programme earlier in the year. Wasn't it Timewatch or something?

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cnosni wrote: Indeed.And some daft yank commander decided he would have a crach at the germans before 11am,just to make a name for himself. Back from Canada, Chris?

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By way of nothing the old Edmund Street water main was only abandoned in 1997, probably when the new houses were built. It's still there and the last and only indication of the old street configuration.

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Si wrote: cnosni wrote: Indeed.And some daft yank commander decided he would have a crach at the germans before 11am,just to make a name for himself. Back from Canada, Chris? Yeah and still jet lagged
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Not a Leeds ladUK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 about George Edwin Ellison Name: George Edwin Ellison Birth Place: York Residence: Leeds Death Date: 11 Nov 1918 Death Location: France & Flanders Enlistment Location: Hull Rank: Private Regiment: Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) Battalion: Corps of Lancers. 5th Lancers (Royal Irish) Number: 12643 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
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One of the articles said he was a miner, I wonder if that was in the East leeds pits?

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A quick rummage through Ancestry and in 1901 George turns up living with his parents and sister in West Hartlepool. He is employed as a barman in a pub. Looking at his family tree, he has, apparently, a living son. Because the person is still living, their details are concealed. There is nothing on his wife’s info that indicates that she re-married [Having married George in 1912].

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His grand-daughters are on the bbc link.

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