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The garden of 2 St Clements Terrace is made good too, their decking is replaced better than before.
14/3/06
Now why has he included a picture of two holes in the wall? - you might ask. Well, these "weep holes" (new word I learned today from the workmen) at the foot of the wall just to the right of the above picture, and others in the removed section, used to allow any water behind them to escape into the road outside. But a combination of neglect and raised garden levels behind the wall over a period of decades rendered the weep holes useless. The people who built the original wall were aware of the danger of flood water a very long time ago. Had the weep holes still been in use, St Clements Terrace may have avoided some of its flooding problems over the years.
14/3/06
The six houses in St Clements Terrace each have a 'garden shed', the four on the right (two shown) appearing to have been built at the same time as the houses (1904) while the other two (behind the hedge) could be part of one of the original buildings shown on the 1842 Tithe Map on page 29.
Several of the houses at the eastern end of Wesley Place were animal sheds and barns at this time.
15/3/06
The eastern end of the 'old sheds' shown above. While the left-hand picture has been 'doctored' a bit to remove confusing background at top left, a bit less than half the back of this shed has indeed been chopped off at some time, giving a rather odd roof shape, to create space behind Wesley House (the old chapel).
The Harberton (Ebenezer) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was converted from a barn ca. 1840. Deeds date back to 1700ish. Registered title in 1965. The chapel was converted to a house in 1974. Three of the original four cornerstones are still visible externally today: "Harberton", "Ebenezer" and "Lancashire" (where the movement started); the fourth (now inside the house's garage) says "Wesley".
15/3/06

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