paradise row
paradise row
Glovers' housing in Huish
Paradise Row was
a terrace of
some twenty
small cottages
on the north
side of
Huish at
its eastern end
with, famously,
only two shared
privies between
them.
It was built as
cheap housing,
primarily for
workers in the
leather /
gloving
industries,
between 1806 and
1831 as it
doesn't appear
on Watt's map of
1806 but is
shown on
Day's map of
1831.
Nevertheless the
western end of
the terrace was
built on the
site of the
Chequers Inn,
a former a barn,
flax shop and
drying house
that was still
extant in 1812.
Paradise Row got its name from the fact that it was built next to the disused Tabernacle burial ground, indeed this whole end of Huish was colloquially known as Paradise and recorded as such in various census returns at least until 1891.
In the 1841 census Paradise
Row was home to
82 persons,
almost
exclusively
glovers and
their families.
The
1846 Tithe
Apportionment
noted that the
houses and
gardens (Parcel
305) were owned
by the Reverend
Gilbert Smith
and Richard
Turned leased
the cottages and
sub-let them.
Paradise Row was
demolished in
1936 and the
site is now
under Tesco’s
car park.
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map
1886 Ordnance Survey showing Paradise Row at the top of the map.
gallery
This photograph
features in my
book 'Yeovil
From Old
Photographs'
Paradise Row photographed about 1910.
