ROW EIGHTEEN - SOUTH SAY'S ROW *1

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Row no. Eighteen from Say's Corner to George Street was called South Say's Corner Row. This row and Row Seventeen, can be seen in the photograph of Say's Corner. A large house in Row Eighteen had in Palmer's time been divided up, but this is not apparent in the photograph.

We can see that the houses here are all quite small with only two storeys, but many had attic rooms in the roof with dormer windows. Tall chimneys higgledy-piggledy all over the place and Georgian windows with slender glazing bars are apparent in all the houses.

Two houses on the south side of Row Eighteen have external wooden shutters as do the two houses facing down towards us in the centre of the open space. This was very much a residential area in the 18th. and 19th. centuries, although the south side of row 18 had innumerable small dwellings along it by 1906, and it had been widened to form Brewery Street. The widening all came from the north side by demolishing the houses along the centre where Say's corner was and the area between the south side of Row 18 and The Conge was unaltered.

A substantial number of the dwellings in this area were only approached by narrow passages and did not front onto any row at all. The houses here certainly were in the main very small indeed and undoubtedly would have been totally devoid of any modern conveniences.

The Occupants, Row Eighteen

In 1886 and later, there were no occupants, as the brewery was here.