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Paradise Street
From Campo Lane, looking towards Queens Street.
Before Paradise Square (on the left) was built on a cornfield called Hicks Stile
Field. The houses in the square were built by Thomas Broadbent in 1736 and 1771.
The sloping ground made the square an ideal place to hold public meetings. Many
famous names have spoken from a rostrum which was (and still is ) on the first
floor of one of the buildings. In the 1700s, John Wesley the preacher held a
meeting there. Sir Francis Chantrey the famous sculptor lived in a room in Paradise
Square.
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