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Ebenezer Terrace
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The terrace of houses in Newton Road, close to the junction with Rectory Road, was built in 1861, by Samuel Knight and he named it after his son.
The cottages were built in 1861 by the Radburne family, with brick frontage and stone to the rear. They traded in the High Street as milliners and lace dealers. Many different tradesmen operated from these Workshops including carpenters, pattern makers and clickers. In 1901 Jim Bugby, fishmonger, was the occupier of No 8. He moved into 117 High Street soon after. Charles Ette the baker also traded from the Terrace, later moving to the corner of Pratt Road and Newton Road. Lillian Darnell opened a shop at No. 16 in the 1920's, in the front room of her 'two up two down' cottage. Mrs. Darnell sold everything, including tea, sugar, candles, snuff, cigarettes, and block salt. Sometimes people would knock on the back door when the shop was closed and say "I've run out of" something or other, and Lilian would sell them whatever they were needing. She also sold home-made ice cream made from cream purchased. Athough the people living in the terrace at the time did not want to leave, the cottages were demolished in 1986 and the date stone was incorporated into the wall of the car park that replaced the terrace. That wall is already showing signs of decay with bricks eroding.
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