Thanks Joe for the views :-)
Thanks Joe for the views :-)
I'm surprised this passageway hasn't been posted. Maybe it's on another thread. Just in case it hasn't been shown; It's the tunnel that connects James Street underground Station to Water Street.
Many of you will remember running down it on the way to New Brighton, in a gang of course, shouting to get the maximum effect of the echo, because of the tiled walls. I've been hit on the head a few times with a rolled up Paper. This was usually accompanied with the words: "You noisy little B***ard"
Thanks Oddsocks, I ahven't seen these views before
A small alley leading to the walkway West Drive, on the old colliery branch line of the railroad and then the Old Quay Lane. A small alley with Manor Road Manor Road South with the North, and the small alley leading south end of the Parade.
My maternal grandfather used to call such little side streets "back cracks." Interestingly, one Liverpool pub, "Ye Cracke" -- famed as a haunt of the Beatles, poets, and art students, is on such a back crack, Rice Street, off Hope Street.
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Chris
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Well, on reconsideration, I am not so sure about this, Pete. I think it might refer more to the winding nature of such passageways more than being a synonym for "narrow passage" or "alleyway."
See here--
"I do not see how we can connect the English substantive went with the well-known Celtic Derwents and Ventas (Welsh gweni). We should, however, compare such a name as Prison Weint, an ancient passage off Water Street, Liverpool, of which a few interesting particulars are given in Stonehouse's 'Streets of Liverpool' (1869), weint, like went, apparently being referable to A.-S. (ge)wind, 'winding way.' Hy. Harrison."
In William White, Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, 1901, p. 214, available on Google Books.
Chris
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We just call it the entry.
Ginnels are the very small narrow entries which you could touch both walls at arms width 'entries' are wider.
The 'back passage' is not used as much these days on account of its 'more tea vicar' connotations
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.
There are ginnels in Leeds, but no jiggers as far as I know. The O.E.D. suggests that ginnel may come from the French chenel = narrow passage. Jiggers were possibly named by association with what was alleged to take place in them, viz sexual activity, supposedly from jig-jig (African seamen's dialect).
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I like the York term of Snickelway....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways_of_York
...with a link to a "ginnel" -
"...and is a portmanteau of the words snicket, meaning a passageway between walls or fences, ginnel, a narrow passageway between or through buildings, and alleyway, a narrow street or lane..."
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