reet. Here were open fields, which extended to
the London-road, quite famous for the assembling of all sorts of rough
characters, especially on summer evenings, and on Sundays.
Cock-fighting, dog-fighting, and pugilistic encounters used to be carried
on daily, and scenes of the utmost confusion took place, until public
murmurings compelled the authorities to keep order. It was in the fields
about where the Lord Nelson-street rooms stand, that my grandfather
recollects seeing three, if not four, men hung for being mixed up in the
rebellion of '45. They were hung there in chains for some time, and
afterwards buried at the foot of the gallows as a warning to evil-doers.

There were several mills in this vicinity, one of which was called the
White Mill, and there was a very curious story once commonly current
about it, in the town to the effect that the owner of it had been
murdered by a friend of his who kept a mill lower down the hill.
Whitemill-street is called after this White Mill. The lower mill stood
where Hotham-street is now, which formerly was called Duncan-street. The
mill occupied the site of the Quaker's school, which was pulled down to
make room for the railway yard. When this mill was razed to the ground,
a grave was discovered in the foundation, in which was a skeleton, and it
was freely said that this was the White Mill miller, who had so
mysteriously disappeared some years previously. It was the talk of the
town at the time, and crowds of persons went to the spot to look at the
grave. When the mill in Duncan-street was taken down it was so rotten
that it was razed to the ground in one day. Where St. George's Hall now
stands was the Infirmary. It faced Islington Triangle, afterwards
converted into a market-place, being built round with small shops, having
a pump in the middle. When this market was discontinued in 1848, the
tenants were removed to Gill-street, on its opening in September of that
year. The Infirmary consisted of two wings and a centre; at the back was
a spacious garden or airing ground. On Shaw's Brow lived the potters.
There were upwards of 2,000 persons engaged in this trade, which was
carried on to a very great extent. Pottery in Liverpool was a
considerable manufacture, and it is said that it was Mr. Sadler, a potter
who lived in Harrington-street, that first discovered the art of printing
upon earthenware, through seeing his children stick pieces of printed
cotton fabric on