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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (West Riding) => Topic started by: Lalzovi on Friday 28 June 19 12:28 BST (UK)
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Hello folks. Since your wonderful help regarding Burnt Edge earlier this week I have come along in leaps and bounds figuring out some other obscure locations by myself. Now I am stumped again by "Bank, Leeds". Several examples of the reference can be found here:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Leeds/LeedsBaptisms1735-1738
My ancestors are otherwise centred around West Street (obsolete), so I very much doubt that Bank refers to the area now called Bankside in Harehills. My best guess is that it refers to the area around the Bank of England branch in Mill Hill Ward (shown on the 1852 map https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344959), but can't confirm this. It's very difficult to use Google without coming up with a list of all the banks in modern Leeds!
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Have a look at this ( found by Googling Bank Leeds)
https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/bank-leeds
Emeltom
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Ooh... well that's me told then! ::) ::)
Not at all where I expected but it does seem indisputable. Thank you!
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http://www.leodis.net/
Enter 'Bank' into the drop down location search tab.
I take it that you don't know much about Leeds then Laizovi?
Brian
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Not in the slightest! I've been focused on a line in Huddersfield (which I don't know very well either) and just peeped into the line of a wife who came from Leeds. Found myself very disoriented! Sorry for troubling you...
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We welcome requests from all here! :)
Surprised at some requests maybe from people who have never visited UK, asking about what must be ancient history to some.
Brian
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Just to add about the area known as the Bank.
It was a major area in the part of Leeds where currently there is the 'Leeds Playhouse' together with the imposing building currently the NHS headquarters.
Previously we had the 'Quarry Hill' complex, then before that the area known as the Bank, run down area with lots of Irish people existing here.
Brian
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Just to add about the area known as the Bank.
It was a major area in the part of Leeds where currently there is the 'Leeds Playhouse' together with the imposing building currently the NHS headquarters.
Previously we had the 'Quarry Hill' complex, then before that the area known as the Bank, run down area with lots of Irish people existing here.
Brian
Thanks a lot, I'll bear all that in mind.
As for asking obvious questions, I do rather remind myself of the tourists who used to ask me where Durham Cathedral was when they were standing in front of it!
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Whenever you are ready just ask :)
If I can't answer there are plenty of others who can!
Brian
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Oh goodness, I remember those dreadful Quarry Hill Flats in Leeds! I used to go by them twice a day on the 'bus when I lived there. Terrible place to dump human beings, I always thought. Glad they've gone.
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http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2015126_175353
This is a photo taken from the area. It describe the rows of redbrick houses that were there