Stone, Perseverance Road, Queensbury
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Stone, Perseverance Road, Queensbury
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 30 Aug 2004
This reads "Perseverance Road / Opened Nov 1871 / Local Board / (list of members)". This was a bit tongue-in-cheek as the residents themselves were the Local Board. The road used to be called Mucky Lane, so named because of the poor state of the road. In 1871 the residents decided to re-lay the road themselves. They placed a commemorative monument on their new road, and renamed it Perseverance Road. (Information from Stan Ledgard's book: "Forgotten villages: Raggalds, Mountain and West Scholes".)
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Image Location
Latitude
53.777965
Longitude
-1.872497