The Calls

The origins and history of placenames, nicknames, local slang, etc.
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munki
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Does anyone know what the 'call' in The Calls & Call Lane refers to???
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munki wrote: Does anyone know what the 'call' in The Calls & Call Lane refers to??? The area was well known for prostitution in days gone by. Just a guess but maybe that has something to do with it "call girls" etc.

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I think it comes from the Latin for a path or walkway - something like that. Isn't there an old thread on this somewhere?

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Yeah it's in here somwhere:Clickety click
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Tut tut munki... didn't search the site for it first... well I dunno!
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Si wrote: I think it comes from the Latin for a path or walkway - something like that. Isn't there an old thread on this somewhere? Calle is Spanish for "Street".
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ExplorerRich wrote: munki wrote: Does anyone know what the 'call' in The Calls & Call Lane refers to??? The area was well known for prostitution in days gone by. Just a guess but maybe that has something to do with it "call girls" etc. interesting theory, but I doubt it.but actually in medieval times a street where prostitutes plied their trade woiuld have been called 'finkle street(lane, or whatever)'. many towns that go back as far as that: pontefract for instance still have a finkle street. Is there a finkle street in Leeds? Or perhaps more accurately was there one?I should add that there are other ideas about finkle street: and the prostitition bit is a coincidence: ie it just so happend that it went on in these twisting alleyways in meieval market towns.     
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Si wrote: I think it comes from the Latin for a path or walkway - something like that. Isn't there an old thread on this somewhere? I'm guessing that 'alley' has a similar etrytmology, as does aller french for to walk.
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