Golden Ball Street
Golden Ball Street Golden Ball Street, in the
early 1930s, was about as narrow as Westlegate then was.
It was early in 1936 when the traffic problem was
becoming acute that a scheme was approved for widening
both streets and their connecting link, All Saints’
Street, providing an alternative route from the cattle
market and St Stephen’s into Ber Street. By October
1938, the old Woolpack inn at No 9 Golden Ball Street was
being demolished, along with neighbouring property - a
new public house having already been built at the back.
Because of delays caused by the outbreak of war, however,
it was not until April 1940, that the last new kerbstones
were laid.Although the old Woolpack and its neighbour at No 7, a hairdresser’s shop, were Tudor timber-framed buildings and probably formed a single property originally, they were not of sufficient importance to arouse protests when it was decided that they would have to be demolished. Nos 1-9 Golden Ball Street (pictured) in 1937. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2001 |