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Birmingham street name changes

Vivienne14

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This is extracted from Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham, published 1885. Some roads had already had more than one name change by the time the Dictionary was published. Note, some names have changed yet again since this list was published.

Baskerville-street is now Easy-row.

Bath-road is Bristol-street.

Beast Market was that part of High-street contiguous to New-street; also called English Market.

Bewdley-street, afterwards Ann-street, now Colmore-row.

Birch Hole-street has been improved to Birchall street.

Black Boy Yard is now Jamaica-row.

Brick Kiln lane is the Horse Fair.

Broad-street—Dale End was so called in the 15th century.

Buckle-row. Between Silver-street and Thomas-street.

Button Alley—Bishop-street, Masshouse-lane.

Butts-lane—Tanter-street; The Butts being Stafford-street.

Catherine-street—Whittal-street.

Cawsey (The Causeway)—Lower part of Digbeth.

Chapel-street—Bull-street was so called in the 14th century.

Chappel-row—Jennens'-row and Buck-street.

Charles or Little Charles-street—Now part of New Edmund-street.

Cock-street—Upper part of Digbeth; also called Well-street.

Colmore-street—From Worcester-street to Peck-lane.

Cony Greve street is now Congreve-street.

Cooper's Mill-lane is Heathmill-lane.

Corbett's Alley—Union-street.

Corn Cheaping or Corn Market was part of the Bull Ring.

Court-lane—Moat-lane.

Cottage-lane—Sheepcote-lane.

Crescent-street—Part of King Edward's Road.

Cross-street—Vauxhall-street.

Crown-street, afterwards Nelson-street is now Sheepcote-street.

Deadman's Lane—Warstone-lane.

Ditch—The Gullet was The Ditch.

Dock Alley—New Inkleys.

Dudwall-lane—Dudley-street

Farmer-street—Sand-street.

Ferney Fields—Great Hampton-street

Feck-lane or Peck-lane—Covered by New-street Station.

God's Cart-lane—Carrs-lane.

Grindstone-lane—Westfield-road.

Hangman's-lane, or Hay Barns-lane—Great Hampton-row.

Harlow-street—Edmund-street.

Haymarket—one of the names given to Ann-street.

High Town—Upper part of Bull Ring.

Hill-street—Little Charles-street.

Jennings-street—Fox-street.

King-street and Queen-street, as well as Great Queen-street, have made way for New-street Station.

Lake Meadow-hill—Bordesley-street and Fazeley-street.

Lamb-yard—Crooked-lane.

Long-lane—Harborne-road.

Ludgate-hill was part of Church-street.

Martin-street—Victoria-street.

Mercer-street, or Spicer-street—Spiceal-street.

Mount Pleasant—Ann-street.

New road—Summer-row.

Old Meeting-street has at various periods been known as Grub-street, Littleworth street, New-row, and Phillips-street.

Pemberton's-yard, Lower Minories, or Coach-yard—Dalton-street.

Pitt-street and Porter-street were portions of Old Cross-street.

Priors Conigree-lane, or Whitealls-lane is now Steelhouse-lane.

Priory-lane—Monmouth-street.

Rother Market—New-street next to High-street and High-street next to New-street was once so called.

Sandy-lane—Snow Hill in the 16th century. Lee Bank-road has also been called Sandy-lane.

Shambles—Part of Bull Ring.

Swan Alley—Worcester-street.

Swinford-street—Upper end of New-street.

Temple Alley, also called Tory-row—Temple-row.

Walmer-lane (in the 15th century Wold Moors)—Lancaster-street.

Water-street—Floodgate-street.

Welch End or Welch Market—Junction of Bull-street, High-street, and Dale End.

Westley's-row, Westley-street, or London 'Prentice-street forms part of Dalton-street.

Withering-street—Union-street.

Wyllattes Green—Prospect Row.
 
Tonk St was added to hill St
Could Caslie St be a misprint for Castle St (which is not there any more) ?
John St was later made into part of Newton St
Leek St sits underneath Matthew Boulton college
Wood St is largely under buildings, but I think the end bit of it is approximately where the end of Ledbury close is
 
Here are two located around Dale End - both clear indicators of what went on there. Presumably Bank Alley (named from at least 1768) named with reference to Mr Lloyd's early bank ?

Bank Alley
Candlestick Alley

Source: British Newspaper Archive
 

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Here are two located around Dale End - both clear indicators of what went on there. Presumably Bank Alley (named from at least 1768) named with reference to Mr Lloyd's early bank ?

Bank Alley
Candlestick Alley

Source: British Newspaper Archive

does that say candle flick alley on snippet 1 viv...wonder how that got its name

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Candlestick Lyn - an 's' looked like an 'f' during this time. Presumably candlemaking went on around there.
 
Cannot comment on candlestick alley, but Bank a;;ey is shown , though not named on the c1824 and 1839 maps in blue, next to the Bank , which was at no 7 Dale End

map 1839 showing bank alley in blue.jpgmap c1824 showing Bank alley.jpg
 
Looking at the list Viv put on of houses and residents it amazes me that in some streets the average was 8. A little overcrowded I would say.
 
I was born on Albert Rd in Aston. For its first ten years up until at least 1870, it was called Garibaldi Rd until it changed to partner Victoria Rd running parallel to it.

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