Pool-fold; and a footway, denominated, very properly, the Dark Entry. Between the two passages were old buildings, which in 1777 were pulled down, and a passage opened, which has formed the present Exchange-street. The streets which were then improved,... A picture of Manchester - Page 23by Joseph Aston - 1826Full view - About this book
| Joseph Aston - 1804 - 310 pages
...Entry. Between the two passages were old 42 buildings, which in 1777 were pulled down, and a passage opened, which has formed the present Exchange-street...limbs, and sometimes to death; to say nothing of the unwholesomness of so confined a situation ; for our ancestors had seemed solicitous to shut out the... | |
| Joseph Aston - Manchester (England) - 1804 - 320 pages
...Dark Entry. Between the two passages were old buildings, which in 1777 were pulled down, and a passage opened, which has formed the present Exchange-street....limbs, and sometimes to death; to say nothing of the unwholesomness of so confined a situation ; for our ancestors had seemed solicitous to shut out the... | |
| 1815 - 226 pages
...Dark Entry. Between the two passages were old buildings, which in 1777 were pulled down, and a passage opened, which has formed the present Exchange-street. The streets which were then improved, had lonj; been a disgrace to the town. They had often doomed the unwary passenger to broken limbs, and... | |
| Charles Henry Timperley - 1874 - 224 pages
...the Market Place to St. Ann's Square. The streets, which were improved by the acts of 1776 and 1777, had long been a disgrace to the town. They had often...limbs, and sometimes to death, to say nothing of the unwholesomeness of the houses in them, from their confined situations. — Lady Lever, widow of Darcy... | |
| Manchester city news - 1883 - 710 pages
...Place was under a gateway similar in breadth to the entrance from tlio Market Place into Blue Boar Court, and by a footway denominated very properly...passenger to broken limbs, and sometimes to death." If Mr. MRLLOR will refer again to Casson and Berry's plan, in Procter's Memorials, or the much clearer... | |
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