Grey Walk, Hunslet.

[Cardiarms]

This picture shows some sort of communal baths facility and I think that's Salem church behind. The passge would have been at the back of the baths? Possibly already cleared?http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... er=6933The buildings here look derelicthttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 5_23466128

[Hats Off]

Here is the Grey Walk part of the 1815 map.Regards.

[Cardiarms]

I reckon the arch in the third picture of my previous post is the Ward's Court Side of the Salem Place photo posted earlier.

[Si]

For comparison. Cardiarms' first pic of Ward's Court...

[Si]

...and the arch in the third Leodis pic.

[The Parksider]

Si wrote: Here's a piece I found from the YEP, 8th January 2008."...Streets and alleys are also being built over and removed from the maps - an example is Grey Walk, which apparently extended from Salem Place, across South Brook Street and Black Bull Street to its junction with Hunslet Lane, somewhere opposite Butterley Street. This Grey Walk was reportedly a very old right of way and was never encroached upon, until Tetleys Brewery redeveloped the area and covered it up in the late 80s. The latest that it would seem is about to disappear is the original Bowman Lane entrance, near the Adelphi pub. At the moment the original street sign is still there on the wall, next to building works for yet more flats - but for how long..."     I can see the narrow way from salem chapel down to Butterley Street on the 1847 map. It's marked as Grey Walk only south of Crown Point Road.The 1906 map does not name Grey Walk but it clearly is there running from salem to Hunslet Road. At its course just south of crown point road it runs along the back of grey walk terrace which is the street at the back of the Crown Hotel, still there today so you can easily get a habdle in this alleyway, ginnel, passage, right of way or whatever.Stand behind the crown a bit to the left and look towards salem and grey walk would have run through the tanker bay and warehouse yard on to Salem.Hunslet Road was created relatively late as we can see from the maps, and it's assumed Hunslet Lane was the old Leeds Bridge to Hunslet bye-way.This narrow "untouched" passage maybe pre-dated Hunslet Lane and maybe is the same sort of bye way that the Holbeck to Leeds passage is that can be traced today in parts (with the railway arches specially accomodating it) and the Buslingthorpe to St.Johns bye-way that cut an angle through the housing north of Leeds is also.All three potential "untouched" rights of way have featured recently on this site, and I wonder if they date from pre-enclosure days and were left as "public property" and "rights of way" such that land purchasers could not get these ways.Today of course many landowners and property developers runs a coach and horses through this sort of stuff. Maybe it doesn't matter as everyone is chugging about in cars, but maybe 1750-1950 these ways did matter to people....

[Si]

See that ginnel running beneath the little chimney in the middle? Is this Grey Walk? Circa 1842.        

[Hats Off]

Si wrote: See that ginnel running beneath the little chimney in the middle? Is this Grey Walk? Circa 1842.         Is there any way you could enlarge the picture Si, I can't see it too well.Regards.    

[The Parksider]

Si wrote: See that ginnel running beneath the little chimney in the middle? Is this Grey Walk? Circa 1842.         Jeez Si and hats where do you get those stonking old maps???Hope you can blow it up Si.....    

[Si]

Hats Off wrote: Is there any way you could enlarge the picture Si, I can't see it too well.Regards. I'll have a go Hats Off.Hmmm. A bit bigger, but lost some resolution. Hope it's a bit clearer?I found the map on the web. I don't know how to post a link, but when I Googled 'cholera leeds 1833' for another thread, the map appeared as the first hit. See the "Leeds in the 1870s" thread.Hope that helps.