Taken in 1860 this picture of the Green Market shows one of the few water chutes situated at the end of the building. This water chute was fed from the Causeway Head reservoir. There were only a couple of these chutes and none of the houses had running water like today.
The Three Tuns is the building, with the portico, left of the shop; this corner is where Midland Bank was built and is now the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The Shoulder of Mutton is reputed to be in Greenmarket; I am unsure of its position. We have discussed some of this in ludlows albums, in relation to The White Lion and especially Pool s wine shop.
OK treeve thankyou for the info. However from previous research covering the Greenmarket the portico was removed in 1831 which either makes this photo one of the earliest on record or the references incorrect.
The earliest possible photograph is 1838; However not known in this area for many years, perhaps 1850s. Greenmarket is not on my current list of projects, but I have found errors in other publications regarding the dates and positions of the Market Cross. I will see if I can sort something out soon for the Greenmarket.
One thing though, a building has been omitted from the dating - after Polkinghorne s was Charles E Lavin s building (of which I have a photograph - I thought I had uploaded it, but if not I can rectify that).
Before the Greenmarket, it was the Bullock Market and the Cross was actually dead centre of the square, being also the centre point of the ancient boundary. In it later position it was in alignment with the edge of Polkinghorne s but at the edge of the claimed property, marked with stone setts. Those stones remained in 1900. Now it would be nearly in the centre of the present road.
Shoulder of Mutton: from Courtney north west corner of GreenMarket in 1825 , much frequented by potters and clome ware travellers. Apparently there until c1845. Should therefore show in the older picture that I have just uploaded of Green Market.
Three Tuns : from Courtney before 1823 “Next came the Three Tuns Inn, a long low house with a balcony over the entrance; this was torn down about 1831”
Rebuilt before 1844 used until 1867.
Thankyou @ chillywilly, any contributions welcome.
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