Keighley street name

[sooty tern]

Does anyone know where Mystic Place was?
Thanks

[rosie99]

Can you give us some idea of date

[Pennines]

Or is it a mystery!

[arthurk]

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?

[Pennines]

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

[sooty tern]

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!

[sooty tern]

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.

[Pennines]

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.

[sooty tern]

Thanks! I'll try both your suggestions.