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RichardB

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At the Townhead Cross, in a house which dwarfed the

meaner buildings around it, lived, until misfortune over-

whelmed him in 1791, Mr. Joseph Matthewman. He it was

who, carrying forward the plans of his father, Joshua Matthew-

man, for supplying the town with water from Crookes Moor,

handed down the family interest in the greater schemes of

which this undertaking was the germ to his descendant, the

late Mr. Albert Smith, and to his sons after him. Mr.

Matthewman's house stood with its side to the gates of St.

James's Church, that is, looking towards what is now Leopold

Street. It afterwards became the residence of a succession of

surgeons — of Mr. John Moorhouse, and on his death, through

a fall from his horse, in 181 5, of his pupil, Mr. James Ray, who

occupied it until, between 1833 and 1837, he took the bold step

of building himself a house " quite in the country," now Mr.

John Hairs, at the corner of Victoria Street and Glossop

Road. Then Mr. George Turton, formerly in Church Street,

was there. At the last, before it and the neighbouring tene-

ments were swept away, it was the shop of Mr. Jackson, pork

butcher.

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