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The garden of 2 St Clements Terrace is made good too,
their decking is replaced better than before.
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Now why has he included a picture of two holes in the
wall? - you might ask. Well, these "weep holes" (new word I learned today
from the workmen) at the foot of the wall just to the right of the above
picture, and others in the removed section, used to allow any water behind
them to escape into the road outside. But a combination of neglect and
raised garden levels behind the wall over a period of decades rendered the
weep holes useless. The people who built the original wall were aware of
the danger of flood water a very long time ago. Had the weep holes still
been in use, St Clements Terrace may have avoided some of its flooding
problems over the years.
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The six houses in St Clements Terrace each have a 'garden
shed', the four on the right (two shown) appearing to have been built at
the same time as the houses (1904) while the other two (behind the hedge)
could be part of one of the original buildings shown on the 1842 Tithe Map
on page 29.
Several of the houses at the eastern end of Wesley Place were animal sheds
and barns at this time.
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The eastern end of the 'old sheds' shown above. While the
left-hand
picture has been 'doctored' a bit to remove confusing background at top
left, a bit less than half the back of this shed has indeed been chopped
off at some time, giving a rather odd roof shape, to create space behind
Wesley House (the old chapel).
The Harberton (Ebenezer) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was converted from a barn
ca. 1840. Deeds date back to 1700ish. Registered title in 1965. The chapel
was converted to a house in 1974. Three of the original four cornerstones
are still visible externally today: "Harberton", "Ebenezer" and
"Lancashire" (where the movement started); the fourth (now inside the
house's garage) says "Wesley".
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