Nice work again fortinian.
Great to see the images on Streetview. I noticed the 'bulge', or rise in the middle of Corn Street, and thought I'd check out the Jonathan Bennison map of 1835 on the Leverpoole* website. The map is posted here.
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The map shows the Park Street, Mill Street area at the time. The Mill is already established, and is shown as built at the top of a rocky outcrop of land. You were right to mention the 'terrace' or landing half way up Corn Street. This was the ridge of the natural ground, as the ridge tranverses across the street. You can also see the future extension of Beaufort Street [shown on the Google Street view as grassed over].
'Beaufort Street' was 'Bedford Street' in 1835. And the retaining wall shown on the Google Street view, it just rising to meet the level of the higher natural land.
Daz
*[can't post the map here, due to copywrite, so posted the link instead.]
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