Some of the older place names in the centre of Salisbury are so unusual that you are unlikely to come across them anywhere else in the UK, and it would seem that a few of them may even be unique, with no other examples currently in use on earth. If any readers wish to accept the challenge; try and locate any other instances of the following place names: Bedwin Street, Chipper Lane, Endless Street, Gigant Street, and Ox Row. Although street names can remain unaltered for hundreds of years, the same cannot often be said about the places themselves.

Endless Street, for example, has changed almost beyond recognition. On the corner of Chipper Lane and Endless Street stood the Palace Theatre, which was originally built as the County Hall – a fine Queen Anne style auditorium that opened on September 16, 1889.

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I am indebted to Sue and Tim Bale who provided this week’s photo and also the following information regarding a man named Ted Mabbett. Sue said: “My husband’s name is Tim Bale and Ted was on his mother’s side of the family. Ted began playing the cornet with the Shrewton amateur band in1876, aged 16, and later, in about 1910, he was a member of the resident orchestra at the Palace Theatre. After the war he was the bandmaster of the old comrades of the Great War band. This organisation became part of the British Legion in 1920.”

On the opposite corner of the Palace Theatre stood the former residence of Dr Gilbert Kempe at 17 Endless Street. His house was demolished along with several others prior to the construction of The Regal Cinema which opened in 1937. Today it is the Everyman Cinema.

Throughout the fifties and sixties, the old Palace Theatre was used as a Garage. It was demolished in the late 1960s.