14 – Wards Yard

police-yard
Map: C2

This photograph was taken after the old police station was built effectively cutting Wards Yard in two. In the centre is the police station yard and top right are three houses from the original yard that are still standing today.

Behind the houses one can see Tontine Road and the long window of Greaves the chemists. Also the roof of what is now McDonald’s.

 

wards-yard-entrance

Above is the surviving entrance to Wards Yard.

 

workhouse-wards-yard

Bottom of Wards Yard in the 1950s showing the Workhouse Masters House and a glimpse of the Municipal Hall in the centre.

 

3 thoughts on “14 – Wards Yard”

  1. I have no idea what numbers, but my mother (Teresa) and her parents (John and Amy Robinson) lived here in the 1930’s and their next door neighbours were Joe and Nellie O’Neill and children.