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YEARSLEY, John
1797-1855
Ironmonger, iron founder.
      Born at Welshpool, Montgomeryshire (now Powis), Wales, he bought land to build in Clifton and for the Powis estate and was a partner in the Eagle Foundry, which cast the Victoria Fountain in 1846. He owned 19 Grenville Place in 1847-18501. In 1852 he was a founding director of the Brighton and Hove Benefit Building Society. His daughter married Dr R P B Taaffe, founder of the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital.
PERSONAL
Grenville Place [residence 1837-1841]
Clifton Villa, 7 Clifton Hill [residence 1847-1848]
4 Powis Villas [residence 1851-1855]
Grove Villa, Clifton Hill [residence 1852-1855]

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YOUENS, Bernard Arthur
(né POPLEY)
1914-1984
Actor.
      Born in Hove, the son of a jeweller, he is best remembered as gruff northerner Stan Ogden in the television soap opera Coronation Street from 1964 for almost 20 years until a few months before his death in Salford. Youens was his mother's maiden name. Early in his career, as Bernard Graham, he appeared in three films between 1947 and 1949 for the then flourishing regional production company Mancunian Films.
PERSONAL
10 Portland Road [childhood home 1914]
36 Princep Road [chidhood home 1916-1925]
     

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