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Williamson and his neighbours

Joseph Williamson built many of the houses which lined Mason Street in the early to mid-1800s. Many of these were as strange as his underground structures - rooms with no doors, warrens of underground cellars - but some quite distinguished people of the city chose to live in them. As more properties were added over the years, house numbers often changed accordingly and old records often fail to specify the number of the house a person occupied, so it is difficult to place some of the residents. However, in this plan of how Mason Street looked in the 1830s, we can see that the King of Edge Hill was by no means the only notable character living there:

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Aside from those marked with the triangles on the left, other residents of the street (with house number in brackets where known) included: · Charles Alexander, merchant, and Mary Alexander, gentlewoman (4) · Henry Brown, junior attorney · Joseph Johnson, gentleman · Mary Miles, gentlewoman · Thomas Moss, chemist (13) · Edward Sutton, corn merchant · Richard Tomkinson, salt merchant · James Chapman, merchant (9) · Henry Brown, junior attorney · Matthew Hayes, wine merchant, and Jane Hayes, gentlewoman · Joseph Mann, broker · John Merritt, gentleman · John Rolling, school master (4) · Thomas Tipping, book printer · Alice White, gentlewoman