Queen Street

Extract from Woods 1833 plan of Castletown

This postcard shows the older property much of which is now demolished.

Originally Queen Hive street - for a social description c. 1870's see Flaxney Stowell's account - however his account of the name as deriving from the landlady of a public house sitting on an upturned bee hive is fanciful - A Queen Hive house is mentioned in 1704 composition book (and a 1757 deed) and probably refers to a small landing place on a river (see OED hithe/hythe)

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