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Dundalk Street is a real mystery, in the 1963 Kelly's Directory it isn't listed, however if you check on Ludlow Street, Dundalk Street comes between Higher Chatham St and Higher Cambridge St, checking a similar era A-Z, Dundalk St is listed but has no reference number ? , the hunt continues.
All very interesting, the Dundalk Street shot appears as if renamed (note the faint outline of a longer street name sign just below)Old maps show the Manchester 'Corn Brook' which ran below and across Chatham Street diverted here to Tuer Street and ultilised by the brewery, in other words the seven houses on Ludlow Street would have been on the bank of the Brook.
And 1908 map seems to clinch it.Of the 4 streets named in the University property schedule in association with Dundalk, we have them all close together on this map- Higher Chatham, Ludlow, Woodville and Mahogany, but no visible Dundalk - and an interloper Honduras St, right where we expect Dundalk. And with Manx spotting that Dundalk was a renaming of a longer name, we have the highly plausible possibility that Honduras St got renamed Dundalk St, some time after 1908.And with that Holmesian result, at 00:45, I'm off to bed.
And the Engineer's map of bomb damage shows a red circle (German fire bomb) on one side of Honduras/Dundalk St corresponding to the gap in the row in the photograph and the fact that the Uni bought 7 houses on one side of Dundalk (odd) and 5 on the other (even).Thus my photo was taken from Higher Chatham St, looking into Dundalk. The house is completely gone so there may have been fatalities, in which case the event will be listed among the 1,389 Manchester fatalities during WW2. I'll look for an event in Dundalk/Honduras. The cluster of fire bombs suggests they were after the aluminium foundry which would have burned with ferocious white hot flames. Not a good idea letting your enemy have detailed bombing maps of all strategic factories. It was a chocolate factory in 1908 and best described as such in a war.