Street names

Si · Post by Si » Tue 21 Oct, 2008 10:37 am

Tasa wrote: Si wrote: I've asked on here before without response, but it's worth another try.Who was Richard Shaw, as in "Richard Shaw Lane" in Pudsey?And why is it pronounced so stangely? - Rik-uh-shuh Lane?Ask someone from Pudsey where it is (pronounced as spelt) and they won't know! Just found this in Google Book Search - it was only available in snippet view so there's nothing more than this! Hello again, Tasa,I'm assuming that "Ricardshagh" is a spelling from 1346? In which case it's amazing that the modern pronunciation is still closer to this than "Richard Shaw!" So, the spoken word has survived over six hundred years despite the written word!

harryd · Post by **harryd** » Tue 21 Oct, 2008 10:45 am

Yep - you're right I'm being a bit stupid - it is Shell Lane isn't it. D'oh. It must have been seeing that street in Clapham at the weekend made me think theres an Eggshell Lane in Leeds too - mistaking it for Shell Lane. (Note: to self always double-check info afore posting on here.)Still it'd be interesting to know where Shell and indeed Eggshell Lane originate.Anyway you always learn something new on here - I never knew Richardshaw Lane was pronounced in the strange way alluded to above!

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Tue 21 Oct, 2008 12:14 pm

Si wrote: Yeah, I thought it was just Shell Lane.Here it is in 1904.Photo from Leodis, where there are also some watercolours of it. Before the horseriders had churned it up into impassability!At least, I'm glad the name has been established:-)

dragonheat · Post by **dragonheat** » Thu 23 Oct, 2008 9:56 am

Old Leo wrote: There was an interesting collection of 'Streets' running between Kirkstall Road and Burley Road, in the area now occupied by Yorkshire TV, known as 'The Alphabets'. Working outwards from the city centre they were in sequence - Angel, Baker, Corporation, Dover, England, Florence, Grattan, Hollis, Jermyn, Kennedy, New Lloyd, Meynell, Newlay, Otter, Peel, Quadrant, Runcorn, Stanhope, Townend, Upton and Ventnor. I think that Ventnor Street was the last to survive until relatively recently. my dad grew up around the kirkstall area and he told me about "the alphabets" and if my memory serves me correct wasn't there some streets all called after girls names? One of my favorite street names is in Bradford it is called pendragon something can't remember i was there while very intoxicated

Si · Post by Si » Thu 23 Oct, 2008 10:38 am

dragonheat wrote: Old Leo wrote: There was an interesting collection of 'Streets' running between Kirkstall Road and Burley Road, in the area now occupied by Yorkshire TV, known as 'The Alphabets'. Working outwards from the city centre they were in sequence - Angel, Baker, Corporation, Dover, England, Florence, Grattan, Hollis, Jermyn, Kennedy, New Lloyd, Meynell, Newlay, Otter, Peel, Quadrant, Runcorn, Stanhope, Townend, Upton and Ventnor. I think that Ventnor Street was the last to survive until relatively recently. my dad grew up around the kirkstall area and he told me about "the alphabets" and if my memory serves me correct wasn't there some streets all called after girls names? One of my favorite street names is in Bradford it is called pendragon something can't remember i was there while very intoxicated Just beyond the railway viaduct from the city centre, between Burley Road and Kirkstall Road, were three streets called Minnie, Amy and Lilian, and a Lilian Place. I don't know who they were named after, but possibly the builder's/owner's daughters?There's a Pendragon Castle in Cumbria (or maybe north Lancs.) PS 'Florence Street' in the "alphabets" was actually Florist Street.

daver · Post by **daver** » Thu 23 Oct, 2008 1:00 pm

Pendragon Lane is in the Bolton Junction area of Bradford.Pendragon on it's own is in Undercliffe.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Thu 23 Oct, 2008 4:23 pm

There is a Pendragon Terrace in Guiseley just off Back Lane.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 24 Oct, 2008 1:02 am

Streets off the A63 Selby Road temple newsam/Whitkirk area as Iunderstand it were named after dambusters air crew.Gibson Drive(guy) etc.Can anyone confirm this please...My all time favourite(not in Leeds) is the village of Buckton on the B road to flamboro - Hoddy cows Lane !!!!!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 24 Oct, 2008 12:08 pm

I was told that that Harolds and the girls names were the children of the developer. Dunno if this is true. Also what's the story behind little Scotland in Armley with all the Edinburgh's and Aberdeens etc.My favourite name in Leeds is Charlie Cake Park.

dragonheat · Post by **dragonheat** » Sat 25 Oct, 2008 3:48 pm

Cardiarms wrote: I was told that that Harolds and the girls names were the children of the developer. Dunno if this is true. Also what's the story behind little Scotland in Armley with all the Edinburgh's and Aberdeens etc.My favourite name in Leeds is Charlie Cake Park. After talking to my dad over the streets named after girls, he said that they were named after the developer daughters yeah after much thinking it was pendragon lane I saw one night while drunk