Is there, or was there, a Martin Street in Halifax?

[johnnyboy]

Greetings all: The burial database for Mount Zion Methodist New Connexion chapel in Ogden lists the address of relatives of mine as "48 Martin St, Hx." One relative and his wife lived there in 1899/1904. The second relative (brother of the first) lived at that address in 1941.

Problem is, when I try to locate Martin Street, Halifax on Bing Maps or Google Maps, the search takes me to streets in either Greetland (for Google) or Brighouse for (Bing). Both of those streets have Martin in the name, but they are not in Halifax.

Can anyone help? Perhaps the Martin Street in Halifax disappeared in redevelopment?

Thanks in advance.

John 

[sallyyorks]

Hi John 

From Genuki - Halifax Parish

 "Whites Directory of 1837
Martins ct (Court) , Northgate " .
Nearby  or at the back maybe ?

There is  also  Martins Mill on Pellon Lane (built late 1800s?) but a lot of the streets around it were probably  demolished in slum clearances and redevelopment. If you google it there are some photos of part of whats left of the mill online .
I think there might have been a Martins mill at Boothtown too.

edit , yes there was a Martin Street Boothtown , Halifax in the 1940s

[Malcolm Bull]

I have a bit about the street on my Calderdale Companion website at

www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/s240_m.html#3961

Martin Street was one of a number of streets which ran between Grantham Road and Rawson Street North in the Boothtown area of Halifax.  They all ran parallel to Boothtown Road. St Peter Street was nearest Boothtown Road, then came St Mark Street, then Martin Street.  Palm Street still remains

In the 1970s [?] the area was cleared and Rawson Junior & Infant School was built on the site.

[johnnyboy]

Hi sallyyorks and Malcolm: Thanks for the quick replies and the information. I knew that two brothers and their wives living at the same address forty years apart would likely mean that there was a Martin Street in Halifax.

And Malcolm, first thing I did in my search before posting here was to go to your Calderdale Companion. Unfortunately, I only looked through the main index. Forgot about the Sidetracks. Won't do that again, since many of my Halifax relatives seemed to have lived in areas that were redeveloped.

Regards,
John