| Description | Quebec Street, Wakefield. 18th to 19th century urban landscape now demolished.
WYAAS archives holds a copy of a document entitled 'Memories of Quebec Street', which comprises the memoires of Thomas Stynes who lived on the street from his birth in 1913 until the 1920s or 1930s.
Although largely containing anecdotal accounts of the lives of local people, the document does contain non specific descriptions of the buildings which occupied the area of land between Quebec Street, Piccadilly and Ings Road. Illustrations contained within the document include:
Photographs of terraced houses on Quebec Street.
A numbered plan relating to the function and occupants of the various houses in the vicinity (c.1920).
Rough plan of the arrangement of cottages on the western side of Quebec Street at the junction of Ings Road.
A photograph of an ornamental pump situated in the garden of the former Pemberton Cottage (location unclear).
Photographs of front and rear views of Quebec House, a single storey lodge. Possibly a gate lodge to one of the nearby higher status houses. It had a veranda to the front with over shot eaves. Two shuttered windows flanked a central door. These flat headed windows had interlacing ogee tracery glazing bars. The rear had a centrally placed four sided bay window with narrow ogee arched windows and a deep parapet wall with turned finials at the angles. A string course ran across this elevation at eave height. The visible gable was plain and rendered.
Photograph of Uncle Benny and Aunt Amy outside Pemberton Cottage.
(Stynes, T. c.1984. ''Memories of Quebec Street').
The area is now occupied by large scale retail warehouses and vehicular parking (https://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed26/11/2013). |