Thought I would write about this part of Frome. A warren of small streets dating from around 1700. Weavers dwellings mostly they are reckoned to be one of the first purpose built artisan housing in the UK. Some of them were connected by the top floor so cloth could move from house to house. There were pubs and corner shops. Most got demolished in the 1960s but a few streets remained. During the war the black US troops were confined locally to Chinatown's pubs. Some of the houses had cellars and tunnels that went under some of it. One old style pub still survives: the Lamb and Fountain visit it while it lasts Fromies.
