Dover Street

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 9:50 am

Thanks very much guys,as usual you come up with the answers, on the cencus form it says the house consisted of four rooms and there were 9 people living there,by no means unusual for those days,but a bit of a squash I would imagine!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 18 Jan, 2009 10:28 pm

A really bizarre thing with the alphabet streets is the 'L' and 'N' streets - the 'L' was 'New Lloyd Street'! Who dreamt that up ?? why not just 'Lloyd Street' , or something else beginning with L??. To compound things the 'N' street was 'Newlay Street' which could easily be confused with 'New Lloyd Street' if said quickly - very weird!!

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sun 18 Jan, 2009 10:35 pm

Possibility of a Lloyd Street already in the immediate vicinity so New was appended to avoid confusion? I live within a mile of two completely separate Ledger Lanes one is Lofthouse (LCC) and the other is in Outwood (Wakefield). separate councils/post codes makes them easier to distinguish than two in the LS3/12/13 area would have been.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 18 Jan, 2009 11:16 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: Possibility of a Lloyd Street already in the immediate vicinity so New was appended to avoid confusion? I live within a mile of two completely separate Ledger Lanes one is Lofthouse (LCC) and the other is in Outwood (Wakefield). separate councils/post codes makes them easier to distinguish than two in the LS3/12/13 area would have been. Well maybe - but then why , as the alphabet streets were all new at one time why didn't they just come up with something else beginning with'L' - can;t be that difficult!!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Mon 19 Jan, 2009 11:48 am

[quotenick="drapesy"]A really bizarre thing with the alphabet streets is the 'L' and 'N' streets - the 'L' was 'New Lloyd Street'! Who dreamt that up ?? why not just 'Lloyd Street' , or something else beginning with L??. To compound things the 'N' street was 'Newlay Street' which could easily be confused with 'New Lloyd Street' if said quickly - very weird!! [/quotI didn't notice that drapesy,can you imagine the delivery drivers of today dealing with that palaver lol.

ads · Post by **ads** » Mon 19 Jan, 2009 5:57 pm

drapesy wrote: A really bizarre thing with the alphabet streets is the 'L' and 'N' streets - the 'L' was 'New Lloyd Street'! Who dreamt that up ?? why not just 'Lloyd Street' , or something else beginning with L??. To compound things the 'N' street was 'Newlay Street' which could easily be confused with 'New Lloyd Street' if said quickly - very weird!! This would be because there already was a Lloyd Street that ran from Kirkstall Road to Burley Road, but wasn't part of the alphabets. Still doesn't make much sense to repeat it like this.What happened to W X Y & Z? Dover Street lay beneath Crombie Concessions, 98 Kirkstall Road as it is now.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 19 Jan, 2009 7:25 pm

What about I, there was no I either. A lot of streets were called Inkerman in commemoration of the Battle of Inkerman in 1854 as part fo the Crimea. I wonder if it was built before or after this.

ads · Post by **ads** » Mon 19 Jan, 2009 7:37 pm

Built approx 1865