Site: Hall of Commerce (1 memorial)
N1, Napier Terrace, Battishill Gardens
From this 1914 map and this 1871 map you can see that Battishill Street used to be named Hardinge Street and was lined both sides with Victorian terraced housing probably just like what remains on the east side. Similar housing used to occupy the east side of Napier Terrace. Maps showing WW2 bomb damage show nothing in these streets and post-WW2 aerial photos show all these houses still in place. But they had gone by 1975 when the gardens were opened.
The very useful Mapsthehunthouse indicates that the name change took place 1929-45 and probably 1936-9.
On the day (July 2004) we visited this small paved garden it contained an unusual installation: a single wooden seat with a lectern in front holding a weather-protected page on which was printed "The Drum" an anti-war poem by John Scott (1730 - 83). Both seat and lectern were securely bolted to the ground.
