Just off Dale Street between Cheapside and Vernon Street, you will find Hockenhall Alley. Still standing in the alley is one of the city’s oldest surviving late 18th century houses.

It is one of those little streets that many of us have probably used to cut through from Dale Street to Tithebarn Street without paying much attention to the surroundings. Albeit pretty sparse these days, the street has a history all of its own.






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