Muspole Street
Muspole Street This brings us into
Muspole Street and to our final call on this leg of our
journey. The street’s curious twisting plan possibly
still outlines the borders of the old Mus Pool - “A
pit or pool”, so the historian John Kirkpatrick
tells us, “whereof there were many in the city, but
whether so-called from mus a mouse, or from moss,
quere?”No 11, which stood on the east side of the street on the south corner of Alms Lane was demolished a few years before the war in a slum clearance scheme. Apparently built in the eighteenth century, it was of three storeys and had in its topmost floor, running the entire length of the building, a splendid example of a weavers’ or thoroughlight window, once so common a feature of the city, but now quite rare. Another fine specimen was to be seen in the building formerly standing at the southwest corner of Surrey Street. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2004 |