The image below shows the location of the vennel in the present day. The cottages originally to the right of it are no more but there are remnants of the old walkway attached to the left hand side cottage. In the background an arrow highlights another row of cottages where there was a second vennel. By using these two vennels, locals in days-gone-by could access the old school playground and beyond to Crescent Road from here on Emsdorf Street. As society changed and better access into the rear buildings was necessary, some cottages were demolished and road access replaced the vennel. If you have any information about the vennels or know when the cottages were taken down to make way for this road track - please comment.
A "zoom-in" on the postcard image from the previous post shows a row of cottages on Emsdorf Street, which only partly remains today. In the centre of the row, where the red arrow is pointing, there was an opening into a narrow vennel. A vennel is a public passageway between the gables of two buildings and a description of this vennel was given in a previous post. Presumably this passageway existed from the time the cottages were first built. Such vennels were found in many towns and villages at the time. In this particular case, there were other cottages located behind the street shown, and so access via the vennel would have been essential.
The image below shows the location of the vennel in the present day. The cottages originally to the right of it are no more but there are remnants of the old walkway attached to the left hand side cottage. In the background an arrow highlights another row of cottages where there was a second vennel. By using these two vennels, locals in days-gone-by could access the old school playground and beyond to Crescent Road from here on Emsdorf Street. As society changed and better access into the rear buildings was necessary, some cottages were demolished and road access replaced the vennel. If you have any information about the vennels or know when the cottages were taken down to make way for this road track - please comment.
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