Butchers Row/New Buildings.
Butchers row ran from the old Cathedral Churchyard to The Mill Pool and then turned left down to the Burgess, and at the Mill Pool New Buildings turned right ran around the arc of the Mill Pool to Hale Street. butchers row was a small a few odd houses, but over time they got rid of some and built others but they became butchers to the city.
The soldiers at the Barracks in 1648 had to execute distress warrants on the Butchers who had levied on them to to supply meat for the men's rations. the Butchers not liking it, and un-just, the butches opposed and a soldier was killed, so the soldiers took the meat by force, and the leaders of the mob were imprisoned.
The rain ran from the hill top and Trinity Church ran down Priory street in torrents, the same from the old Cathedral ran down the church yard like a River so they built double guttering down the centre of the cobbles Butchers row into the mill pond.
No one can say, exactly when the bottom bit was called, little Butcher's row it may of been when the penny black stamp 1840 came in to force, or maybe when they built New Buildings or when the first Oat-Barley-Rye market was built, opposed to the corn Markets, I can find no trace.
One dark night a woman living in Silver Street, and feeling lonely, took her baby, walked round the Mill Pond to visit in-laws in New Buildings, situated at the back of the Golden Lion pub, after about an hour the woman left, when the husband arrived home, the house empty he guessed where she may of gone, but not there either fearing something had happened, neighbours helped to search, they found the woman in the pond, Drowned but no baby they dragged the pond but no luck, but next morning they found the baby alive on the roots of a tree at the side of the pond.