A stroll down New Road - Evens 114 to 130
Map Data: Purple - Early Cottage Names / Blue - Current Cottage Names / Green - Buildings on 1880 OS Map / Pink - Buildings since 1914 OS Map
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The other 5 are listed as “being built” which gives a splendidly accurate date for them, since there is no confirmatory date on either of the plaques. Each house has an imposing gabled dormer window in the roof and the whole eight houses are clearly visible in the 1908 photo of the Co-Op printed below.
The adjacent photo shows No.100 Louise Gardens in 1932 with George Tilley and his wife standing outside the door. Their daughter Brita (now Brita Blackwell) is, in 2010, a member of our St Oswald’s congregation. It is interesting to see the original iron railings still in place as I suspect that they would have been removed to reclaim the metal as part of the 1939/45 war effort. The next block, immediately adjacent to Louise Gardens is Nos. 116 to 122. The first house of the block, No. 116, is slightly different in shape and a different roof line can clearly be seen. Also, it is not as shown on the 1898 OS plan, so it was obviously a more modern infill. |
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Nos. 118 to 122 were actually named “Maud Place” on the 1891 census but at some time between then and now the name has been changed to Maud Villas, as a plaque on the wall indicates. This one, fortunately, does have a date - 1884.
I don’t know either the timing of the change of name or the reason for it – perhaps the owners just thought the new name sounded a bit more “up market”? Or perhaps it was just a transcribing error by the census enumerator between his site books and the final census sheets?
I don’t know either the timing of the change of name or the reason for it – perhaps the owners just thought the new name sounded a bit more “up market”? Or perhaps it was just a transcribing error by the census enumerator between his site books and the final census sheets?
Maud Villas in 2006
The 1910/11 Kelly’s gives the occupier of No.120 as George Canvin, Coal and Corn Merchant. As we saw earlier, by the mid 1930’s George Canvin had relocated to No.165.
There is one more block of four cottages before the start of the Co-Op complex. They are currently numbered 124 to 130 although at the time of the 1891 census they were the start of a block of ten dwellings under the name of “Victoria Terrace”
There is one more block of four cottages before the start of the Co-Op complex. They are currently numbered 124 to 130 although at the time of the 1891 census they were the start of a block of ten dwellings under the name of “Victoria Terrace”
