Now even I have to admit that perhaps I have just gone off on one with the title, but it’s true, Bunsen Street was Bennet Street and sometime in the early 20th century the developers stole a big chunk of it.
The bit that is left runs from Little Lever Street to Lever Street and is flanked by a car park and the sides of three buildings.
Unless you use it as a cut through or a place to leave your car I doubt it will excite much interest, but there is a bit of a mystery, because once as Bennet Street it continued on over Lever Street into Spear Street.
But sometime between 1903 and 1911 it vanished under that huge red brick block that dominates the stretch of Lever Street down from Dale Street and along to Stevenson Square.
That said it doesn’t seem to have excited any interest from the compliers of the street directories who failed to include it in either the 1903 or 1850 lists of Manchester streets.
And I suspect if I go looking for it during the half century between these two dates it will be missing.
All of which just leaves a trawl of the census returns because back in the mid 19th century there were plenty of buildings along its course and five of those look to be small back to back properties.
So as they say, watch this space.
Location; Manchester
Picture; Bunsen Street Late Bennet Street, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Unless you use it as a cut through or a place to leave your car I doubt it will excite much interest, but there is a bit of a mystery, because once as Bennet Street it continued on over Lever Street into Spear Street.
But sometime between 1903 and 1911 it vanished under that huge red brick block that dominates the stretch of Lever Street down from Dale Street and along to Stevenson Square.
That said it doesn’t seem to have excited any interest from the compliers of the street directories who failed to include it in either the 1903 or 1850 lists of Manchester streets.
And I suspect if I go looking for it during the half century between these two dates it will be missing.
All of which just leaves a trawl of the census returns because back in the mid 19th century there were plenty of buildings along its course and five of those look to be small back to back properties.
So as they say, watch this space.
Location; Manchester
Picture; Bunsen Street Late Bennet Street, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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