Now Booth Street is just what you would expect of one of those twisty little streets off Chapel Street which make their way down to the river.
Unless you have business down there I doubt that you would give Booth Street a second glance.
Today there are a few apartments along the stretch and that is pretty much it.
Back in 1850 the street directory lists just five addresses, starting with Mary Farren, shopkeeper at number 5, George Lord, mechanic at number 12, Daniel Gaskil who was an overlooker at 20 and John Blomeley next door who also an overlooker and finally the firm of James Aspinal Turner & Co, cotton spinners.
There were plenty more properties along with a closed court and a timber yard, but none of the residents of these were worthy or wealthy enough to get a mention in the directory.
Of course the turnover of occupants in this bit of Salford would have been high and indeed just a year earlier at the bottom of Booth Street there was the Eagle Roller and Spindle Works who likewise is missing from the 1850 list of businesses.
Still there were always the pubs. On the corner of Booth and Chapel Street there was the Punch Bowl, while back down on Barlow Croft you could have ordered a pint at the Lord Nelson , while heading in the opposite direction there was the Royal Oak and finally starting on the corner of Blackfriars Street there was the Saddle Inn and the Crown.
Now I suspect that both Mr Gaskil and Blomeley who lived on the west side of the street could have worked at James Aspinal Turner’s but it is just speculation as is the notion that they may have been regulars in the Punch Bowl.
But armed with their names I shall in time go looking for them on the census returns and that will also offer up the names and lives of some of the others who lived on Booth Street.
And that is all for today, but I shall be visiting the streets on either side over the next few days.
Location; Salford 3
Picture; Booth Street from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and Booth Street in 1849 from the OS for Manchester & Salford, 1842-49 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
Today there are a few apartments along the stretch and that is pretty much it.
Back in 1850 the street directory lists just five addresses, starting with Mary Farren, shopkeeper at number 5, George Lord, mechanic at number 12, Daniel Gaskil who was an overlooker at 20 and John Blomeley next door who also an overlooker and finally the firm of James Aspinal Turner & Co, cotton spinners.
There were plenty more properties along with a closed court and a timber yard, but none of the residents of these were worthy or wealthy enough to get a mention in the directory.
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| Booth Street, 1849 |
Still there were always the pubs. On the corner of Booth and Chapel Street there was the Punch Bowl, while back down on Barlow Croft you could have ordered a pint at the Lord Nelson , while heading in the opposite direction there was the Royal Oak and finally starting on the corner of Blackfriars Street there was the Saddle Inn and the Crown.
Now I suspect that both Mr Gaskil and Blomeley who lived on the west side of the street could have worked at James Aspinal Turner’s but it is just speculation as is the notion that they may have been regulars in the Punch Bowl.
But armed with their names I shall in time go looking for them on the census returns and that will also offer up the names and lives of some of the others who lived on Booth Street.
And that is all for today, but I shall be visiting the streets on either side over the next few days.
Location; Salford 3
Picture; Booth Street from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and Booth Street in 1849 from the OS for Manchester & Salford, 1842-49 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
The punch bowl pub stood at 77 Chapel Street. The landlord in 1851 was William Lowther Bolsover AKA Mundy. He like his two brothers Stephen & John followed their stepfather William Mundy into the pub trade running several pubs in the Salford and Manchester area. Some their children also became pub landlords John's son William ran The British Queen at 28 Ellor Street in 1901, whilst William Lowther's son William ran The Pineapple Hotel.
ReplyDeletePart of of my family lived in the next street along clowes st in 1841.James Arkwright reed maker and family
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