> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:44:54 +0100 > From: "Charles Greenhough" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] Searching for a road in old Shipley > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Barry > > I confirm the street names you name do not show in the index of the > current > Philip's street map. > During the 1960's when the current market place was created a lot of > terrace housing was demolished to create a car park immediately to the SE > of > the current market square. I think this would be a good place to look if / > when you can find a map > > Regards > > Charles Many thanks for your response. I have found the Alan Godfrey map and Regent Street runs south from Saltaire Road, parallel to Thompson Street which used to stretch from Kirkgate to Saltaire Road. It appears that the present easterly end of Wycliff Gardens was, in fact, the northerly end of Regent Street which was a cul-de-sac. In the 1852 map on www.Old-Maps.co.uk there is an area which appears to be named NewYork Delf, to the east of where Regent Street was and around the area now containing the road called Taunt Street. An old book I have on the history of Shipley suggests that New York, which fronted Saltaire Road, was probably named after the quarries at New York Delf . On the ground floors of the two 3 and 4 storey buildings are shop premises apparently fronting the grounds of the Working Men's Club; Ben Dawson's (hairdresser), Dovers herbalists, Lights fish shop and Reddy's confectioners. My late mother has written on this page that New York was next to Regent Street. Google Earth shows that there has been a great deal of what looks like 1960s redevelopment which is interesting as the early maps show a number of quarries around this area. I should be grateful for anything more about the New York Delf and Regent Street areas. Regards, Barry Emmott