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Ive just found this photo on Leodis of some kids playing on Perserverance Street.What a great name for a street that is.I wish i lived on preservation streetAnyone got any old maps of the place?heres the link-http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 119_171517

Perseverence st was within the triangle of Wakefiel rd, Pontefract road and Queen St, as seen in the 1908 map below,Sorry doesn't seem to want to imbed. The map is athttp://s431.photobucket.com/albums/qq38/jeemikejee/?action=view&current=perserverencest1908.jpg    

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Always amused me that the Victorian ruling classes were always full of advice for the poor to the extent they named their streets after motivational expressions - I prefer names like Strawberry lane in Armley - mind you if you had to live in a back to back with ten others and have outside toilets you would need perserverance!Other streets I've seen areHope Street Faith StreetThrift StreetAny others?Maybe the government have some planned"Get off your backside and get to work street"

Brandy wrote: What a great name for a street that is.I wish i lived on preservation streethttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 119_171517 Anyone got a history of the place. Wasn't Stourton efectively an industrial "village" created soley for the local workers? Isn't it therefore true that it is an abandoned village as there's no houses there now???

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I remember Stourton very well from the late 1950s - 1960s. my work took me to the engine sheds and wagon repair works there at frequent intervals, and I believe that these two places of employment had a lot to do with the creation of Stourton and possibly it's demise.Looking at the two inch to the mile OS maps published in "The Village Atlas" for the area, in 1842 the area of the triangle is taken up almost completely by the grounds of Stourton Lodge. in 1892 the later village is completely built up, and other than the railway premises alluded to above, the only other place of local employment is the Iron Works on the later site of Yorkshire Tar Distillers. The 1908 map shows the then new GNR Hunslet East Goods railway embankment in place, which appears to have involved the demolition of some relatively recent housing.Up until the 1960s/70s the railways owned substantial quantities oflow cost housing which were rented out to employees, and Stourton could easily be one of the larger areas of this type, but I am not certain if this was the case. Certainly a large number of the occupants were railwaymen, including several of my work colleagues.In later years the area was totally surrounded by industry - the Yorkshire Copperworks, Cameron Ironworks, Bison Concrete, Yorkshire Tar Distillers, and a plethora of industrial estates, followed by the huge expanse of the industrial estate built to the south of the railway on the site reserved for the never-to-be-builtMarshalling Yard.Presumably when the housing became life-expired the railway work had gone and the surrounding industry made it sensible for the site to be zoned for none-residential purposes.    

'Tranquility' the street up near Cross Gates Post Office...What a lovely name for a street, pity its always gridlocked with Wheels taxi's!

Chrism wrote: Here Pub at the end of Atkinson Street was the' Baron'.Had a few pints in there - it survived into the late 1980s/early 90s

The last time I was in the Baron it was?.