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Title: Keighley street name
Post by: sooty tern on Saturday 04 December 21 18:08 GMT (UK)

Does anyone know where Mystic Place was?
Thanks

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 04 December 21 18:10 GMT (UK)

Can you give us some idea of date

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: Pennines on Saturday 04 December 21 19:35 GMT (UK)

Or is it a mystery!

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: arthurk on Saturday 04 December 21 19:39 GMT (UK)

It doesn't ring a bell, but could it possibly be Myrtle Place? I'm not sure if there was one of those in Keighley, but there certainly was (and is) in Bingley, the next town.

Where have you found this address?

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: Pennines on Saturday 04 December 21 19:50 GMT (UK)

Mystic Place does not come up on an address search on any census, nor on the 1939 register.

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: sooty tern on Monday 06 December 21 14:13 GMT (UK)

Mary Binns (age 2) was buried in Keighley parish church on 21 May 1815. Benjamin Bland (9) on 23 May 1815. For both, their Abode was Mystic Place. It doesn't look like the vicar was being fanciful!

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: sooty tern on Monday 06 December 21 14:31 GMT (UK)

I note that another four people died there in the previous month. I suspect Mystic Place is a euphemism for "squalid courtyard". It might have been somewhere near Eastwood Row or Square on the Bradford road, where the parents lived later, but I'm not sure Eastwood existed in 1815.

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: Pennines on Monday 06 December 21 14:34 GMT (UK)

I do agree it definitely looks like Mystic Place. I wonder if Keighley Library has a local studies department? Might it be worth contacting them?

Or - (only just thought of this) - searching early Yorkshire newspapers for Mystic Place.

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: sooty tern on Monday 06 December 21 18:02 GMT (UK)

Thanks! I'll try both your suggestions.

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: arthurk on Monday 06 December 21 20:06 GMT (UK)

Having now looked at the entries, I agree that it is clearly Mystic Place. While browsing through 1815 to get to May, I spotted it several other times too.

So scrub my suggestion of Myrtle Place.

Title: Re: Keighley street name
Post by: Pennines on Monday 06 December 21 20:19 GMT (UK)

I am, quite seriously, wondering if something odd or mysterious once happened in that area, so when the 'street' was built - it was given that name.

It doesn't appear on any census with an address search (at least it didn't come up for me) - so I do wonder if inhabitants requested a more normal name for their street. It is a bit scarey after all.

I realise this isn't quite the same, but whilst a street was being built in Accrington, Lancs, in the 1840s I think, - an elephant, on it's way to a circus in Haslingden with a circus group - sadly collapsed and died. It was called Chimey or Chimney -- anyway that street, when built - was called Elephant St!