Thank you Victor. 200 years ago, might a business owner have lived and worked at such a location? I have been to Hull only briefly and can't picture it. I have been around the modern yacht basin so was near here without realising it. I suspect dying would have been a messy and perhaps smelly industry so perhaps essentially non residential, particularly if it had been profitable. From the map aerial view, the Blanket Row area appears a wasteland at present. Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Markham" <victor@markham.me.uk> To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Silk dyers | Bill | | Blanket Row is off Queen's Street it leads to Humber Street, runs along | Humber Dock. | | Have a look at http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|Blanket%20Row,%20Hull | | Victor | | Bill Webster wrote: | > Further to my earlier post, the excellent staff at Hull Local Studies | > Library advise that an 1823 directory lists 9 companies of dyers, of whom 8 | > were silk dyers, which I find a surprisingly large number. | > | > The 1803 and 1810/11 directories list GREENWOOD & CO, Silk & Muslin Dyers at | > premises 16 BLANKET ROW, Hull. | > | > Can anyone help me with 16 Blanket Row, its location, and if anyone resided | > there in early censuses or directories? | > | > Thanks and regards | > | > Bill. | > | > | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "Bill Webster" <wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> | > To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> | > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:30 PM | > Subject: Silk dyers | > | > | > | Anyone know of the history of silk dying in Hull? Would they have been | > | members of a guild? | > | | > | A newspaper entry reports a death: Richard Webster Greenwood, son of JOHN | > | GREENWOOD of Hull, silk-dyer 2/12/1814 on his passage to India. | > | | > | Bill | > | | > | > | > | > ------------------------------- | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |