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136 YIP Day 46 - Wall

            This is an old wall alongside a newer building and is inscribed:

R E Hayles 
Wall
1880

I'm not sure why R E Hayles felt the need to point out that this was a wall.  It seems like rather an elaborate show of ownership and I find it quite amusing.

This is just off Pyle Street, which I am researching.  In the 1881 census, at 136 Pyle Street (the other side of this wall), was a Robert E Hayles (aged 33), a cattle dealer.  He lived there with his wife, Julia and their children: Ada, Edwin, Emily, Minnie and Kate (aged between 10 and 2); and his mother Ann, a widow of 58.

I discovered this stone when visiting a friend for the first time.  I had to pass under an archway that I had never been through before, so I didn't know about this stone.  Looking at the census again to check on Mr Hayles, I find that it has solved the mystery of the location of Victoria Place.  This appears on the censuses but I have never been quite sure of its exact location off Pyle Street.  Having now seen the rear of the newer building, and re-checking the numbering, I am sure that Victoria Place was alongside this wall.  My friend seemed to think there was a coaching inn of some sort there, and the large area of 'garden/yard' would certainly suggest a courtyard of some kind.

I will investigate further.

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Taken on: February 15, 2009

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