Hi marky,
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Thanks for the links. You're right...Roscoe's birthplace was the 'Old Bowing Green Inn' which was at the end of Hope Street. Apparently, Mount Pleasant had two bowling greens.
Arline Wilson, author of
William Roscoe, Commerce and Culture says the Old Bowling Green Inn was 'at the corner of St Mary's Lane and Mount Pleasant.'
I've put some details together of exactly where that was.
Also, the year after William Roscoe's birth the family moved to the neighbouring 'New Bowling Green Inn', which William Roscoe senior had been building at the time of his son's birth.
I can't help but wonder whether this was the lower bowling green site highlighted in the OP, as that also dates from at least 1765 [John Eyes map]. This would make some sense rather than building a new inn next to the old one, as the old inn was sited at the thin end of an awkward wedge-shaped plot. Subsequent maps only show a long narrow extension to the old inn [as shown in the later WG Herdman view] and would therefore support the suggestion of building on a different site.
The second bowling green on Mount Pleasant is in a favourable spot as there is an abundance of market gardens nearby - situated between Renshaw Street and Mount Pleasant. These may be the very same fields that William Roscoe and his father worked, cultivating potatoes for market and the like.
Daz
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