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A stroll down New Road - Evens 54 to 114
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Map Data: Purple - Early Cottage Names / Blue - Current Cottage Names / Green - Buildings on 1880 OS Map / Pink - Buildings since 1914 OS Map
No. 54 was listed in the 1930 Kelly’s as Stanley E Marsden, Fishmonger.  (It has been suggested that he also sold cooked fish and chips but I haven’t been able to verify this.) By 1940 it had become David Samuel, Hairdresser and in 1968 was Sketchley’s Cleaners. The window with the curved top which was just visible in the background of the earlier photograph of the Gibbs boys can be clearly seen – now reverted to a proper window!
I have been told that the both the shop and house entrances were originally on the side wall and alterations to the brickwork can be clearly seen so this seems quite feasible..
In 1940, No. 56 was William Collins, Boot Repairer. Both this and the previous shop have now reverted to private houses.
In the 1910/11 Kelly’s, No,60 is listed as Thomas Young, Shopkeeper.
In 1940 No. 68 was “J A Gibson and Sons, Coal and Coke Merchants”.
Their delivery lorry was pictured in 1964 being used for a float in the Revels Carnival Procession.
It is difficult to pinpoint the exact location of the photograph but I believe that the bus in the background is actually waiting in New Road at its junction with The Green.
Obviously they didn’t pay so much attention to health and safety in those days!
The firm continued until 1979 when it closed. The property is now a private house and it is possible that it always was, being used, perhaps, only as a base for taking orders and other admin?

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A. J. Gibson, Coal Merchants lorry in the 1964 Revels parade
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Part of Albion Terrace in 2006
Nos. 78 to 86 are a row of five cottages bearing a plaque saying “Albion Terrace, 1890”.
They are listed as 1 to 5 Albion Terrace in the 1891 census, being barely one year old at that time.

No. 86 is listed in 1940 as being the location for the “National Deposit (Approved) Friendly Society”. Whether it had a commercial frontage or ran from a private house I don’t know, but it is private now.
Nos. 96 and 98 are reputedly the oldest cottages in New Road. Now called “Emma Cottages”, a modern tile plaque on the front indicates that they were built in 1869.

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Emma Cottages in 2006
In both the 1881 and 1891 censuses No. 96 is occupied by a Henry Slaughter, Watercress Grower. In the 1920, 1930 and 1940 Kelly’s, the house is listed as “Jeremiah Saunders, Butcher” and by 1968 it had become “Rusgrove General Cleaning Service”, repeated in the 1974 Kelly’s.
My memory is that in the late 1990s and early 2000s it was a Tool Hire Shop of which there were many in those days to feed the then current fad for D.I.Y. “improvements”, although it was also used extensively by small builders and other tradesmen.

No. 98 is listed in the 1881 and 1891 censuses as being in residential use and there is no mention of any later commercial use for this location, so it could be that the two cottages were combined when it became a shop – I don’t know. Although they have now been quite tastefully face-lifted (apart from the plaque!), I suspect that the shells are still the original.
 
The next two blocks, each of four houses, are numbered 100 to106 and 108 to 114 respectively. Both blocks are named “Louise Gardens”, or, to be more accurate, the first block has just “Louise” on its plaque because the other half has, at some time in the past, been rendered over. 

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Louise Gardens numbers 100 to 106 in 2006
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Louise Gardens numbers 108 to 114 in 2006
In the 1891 census Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (numbered from right to left) are listed as occupied by “Paper Makers”, again showing the influence of Dickinson’s Mill upon the area. 
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