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No, its just the way the road sign is placed. Bowman Lane runs fron Crown Point Road to Waterloo Street ........... Good illusion though
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Cardiarms
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D'oh! Any shorter ones or going nowhere?
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buffaloskinner
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I suppose on a technicality you could be correct as it is literally chopped through with the new apartments.
A road in two halves .......
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Cardiarms
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Being technically correct hasn't helped me win many arguements with my wife.
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| Cardiarms wrote: |
| Being technically correct hasn't helped me win many arguements with my wife. |
You ....win arguments with the wife I'll have what he's drinkin'
(Only kidding dearest if your looking over my shoulder )
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I was born in Vernon Road, somewhere near Fenton Street and the newer Infirmary complex. I believe that most of it has gone under demolition leaving only a few yards, and last time I tried to locate it there wasn't even a name plate anywhere.
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Cardiarms
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That's now covered by the E C Stoner Building. An apt name for a student edifice.
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The Parksider
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| Cardiarms wrote: |
Through the years many roads have been bulldozed, rerouted and renamed. A few still cling on, going nowhere with no buildings on them. Is Bowman Lane the shortest?
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I worked at Tetleys 24 years and know the area well and watched it all change.
Is that Bowman Lane at the Hunslet Road end??
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Cardiarms
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Other end, just by the Adelphi.
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BLAKEY
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| Cardiarms wrote: |
| That's now covered by the E C Stoner Building. An apt name for a student edifice. |
Thanks Cardi - I've often wondered about it.
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The Parksider
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| Cardiarms wrote: |
| Other end, just by the Adelphi. |
That is the Hunslet Road end the Adelphi end!! I remember when it simply ran all the way through to crown point bridge!
Many streets have dissappeared or exist only as the bit at the end.
Some major through roads have been decimated. Near Bowman Lane South Brook Street is in bits, one by Salem Chapel and another as a ginnel to black bull street.
Jack Lane was particularly split up along it's course.
Up in my neck o t'woods Farrar Lane was a major throughfare once but is a backwater now.
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Cardiarms
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D'oh!, Damn this red wine and the blurring of my faculties.
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Cardiarms
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| Cardiarms wrote: |
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| Cardiarms wrote: |
| That's now covered by the E C Stoner Building. An apt name for a student edifice. |
Thanks Cardi - I've often wondered about it.
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Thanks again Cardi - I didn't take much notice at the time, but I imagine it looked a lot different on May 12th 1936 !! 
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I think the shortests road/street could be the one at the left of the mulberry pub in hunslet opposite Braimes. Could it be called Mulberry street?.
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carith
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been past this today it is called mulberry place and is only about 10 metres long.
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| been past this today it is called mulberry place and is only about 10 metres long. |
Hi carith when i was a kid there were one or two houses on the side opposite the pub i bet nothing is there now?
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Prior to costco the site was used by EJ Arnolds but I think in years gone by it had back to back housing there. When housing was on the site mulberry place may have been a lot longer.
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Cardiarms
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The 1906 maps says the street on the left of the pub has only ever been as long as the pub with a works on the the back of the pub. The road on the right of the pub was mulberry place and had two blocks of 4 back to backs.
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carith
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Thanks Cardi,
I must learn to know my left from my right and stand corrected.
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Cardiarms
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Depends which way you're looking when standing. ;-D
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Cardiarms
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Depends which way you're looking when standing. ;-D
It's still a pretty short road and must be a contender.
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| tyke bhoy wrote: |
| Did mulberry place also extendfurther than the 10 metres. Costco has probably only been there just over 10 years but I can't remember what it replaced |
Mulberry place was originally 16 back to backs long.
It ended at a spanish leather works.
The other backs south of "place" was mulberry street. there was also Mulberry terrace.
It was John Fowlers steam plough and locomotive works that descended on the area and changed matters.
I suspect the Mulberry was built to slake the thirst of the engineers at the famous factory.
The Mulberry houses were possibly demolished and rebuilt as back to backs again with new streets Leathley, Dresser and Ward street being built.
But behind the Mulberry was a "works" attached to Fowlers.
It's all John Fowlers fault dontcha know.
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