Before Neswick Street was built there was a rope walk constructed on this site in about 1800. The length of a rope walk was usually 600 feet (180 metres). At one end of the walk one person would turn the ‘spinner’ to which the 3 or 4 ‘braids’ were fixed. He also controlled the tension while another person walked backwards from the other end of the walk, holding the ‘top’ that would weave the ‘braids’ together to form the rope
