New restaurant/public house corner of Halifax Rd & Chaucer Rd

[Apprentice89]

Curious George it will be called

[nikki-red]

Curious George it will be called

 

 

Its called the Eight-Foot Way.

 

Generous George is the company.

[Guest]

My bit of banter has been deleted from this thread!! everyone else's gets to stay. That seems a tad unfair.

[Vaati]

Ok guys, you've had your fun, now it's starting to get insulting towards the people who live in the area. It has a proper name, it is to be used and the fun poking is to stop.

[MediumDave]

;-)

 

Sounds like a type of Roman (or very early) paved road:

 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uqBfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=%22eight+foot+way%22&source=bl&ots=98QGo1TOMq&sig=N0CqQgTaxrmpIU6eArkS-Nk-RgI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih0sCx2I3WAhUEG5oKHfGBBbEQ6AEIXzAN#v=onepage&q=%22eight%20foot%20way%22&f=false

 

Maybe the old Halifax road was one of these 'eight-foot ways'? Makes you wonder what happened when two carriages met each other...

 

Apparently it was a local name for the 'ginnels' between streets, taken from fairly mundane architect's description:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firth_Park_(ward)#Parson_Cross (scroll to the bottom)

 

Shame there's no citation for it but there you go...

 

By the way it is stretching a point to call it Parson Cross considering the even-numbered side of Halifax Road is actually in S6, and it is bordered only by Chaucer School's playing fields. It's as much Wadsley Bridge/ Foxhill really...

[Micky D]

Apparently it was a local name for the 'ginnels' between streets, taken from fairly mundane architect's description:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firth_Park_(ward)#Parson_Cross (scroll to the bottom)

 

Shame there's no citation for it but there you go...

 

By the way it is stretching a point to call it Parson Cross considering the even-numbered side of Halifax Road is actually in S6, and it is bordered only by Chaucer School's playing fields. It's as much Wadsley Bridge/ Foxhill really...

 

Correct, although I've only heard the term used, city wide, on the inter-war council estates. The Gennils on these estates were originally surfaced with 3foot x 2foot precast concrete flags, laid 4 course wide. 4 courses of flags equals 8 foot, hence the name...

 

...strange name for a pub tho'

[esme]

Mod Note

 

My bit of banter has been deleted from this thread!! everyone else's gets to stay. That seems a tad unfair.

 

I just reviewed this thread, none of your posts have been removed from it, would you care to come to the Helpdesk & explain why you think making false accusations against the Moderators is appropriate ?

[actionman]

An eight foot is another name for a gennel which we used that name as kids.

Very handy to have this on my doorstep in parson cross. The're currently building a few hundred new houses in the area. A lot of social housing but also all private on the very large remmington rd site.

Be good for the area

[Guest]

Mod Note

 

 

 

I just reviewed this thread, none of your posts have been removed from it, would you care to come to the Helpdesk & explain why you think making false accusations against the Moderators is appropriate ?

 

I responded to this earlier and that got deleted.

 

I'll repeat. When I posted yesterday I must have been a bit lax and not pressed to submit reply button properly and didn't notice, causing me to think that my post had been deleted.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Guest