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Finding Heath Family in Hockley

The Douro Wine was number 30 and was part of Abbey Buildings (I think). That is the building Lyn and I thought was the chemist until we realised the numbering was wrong.

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Janice I lived in Ford Street. The road going clockwise were Ford Street/Lodge Road(The Flat)/Little Park Road/Piddock Street/Lodge Road/Park Road. Unless they lived where Yarnolds
Astoness said:
ahh ahh carol so was the wine shop nick named the hole in the wall ?? if so you have just solved a family mystery for me

lyn
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Heres why Lyn
 
I would think their residential address was on Little Park Road but their commercial address was the chemist on the corner of Ford Street.
 
I agree with you Carolina about the order of the roads but the directory tells me Yarnolds was number 30 - corner of Ford Street and Lodge Road which is the number visible in your second photo above. While Heath's was 382 on Lodge Road at the corner created by Little Park Road and Piddock Street. Their residential address was 76 Park Road (I think it was all Park Road back then) and the commercial side was 382 Lodge Road.
 
pjmburns said:
I agree with you Carolina about the order of the roads but the directory tells me Yarnolds was number 30 - corner of Ford Street and Lodge Road which is the number visible in your second photo above. While Heath's was 382 on Lodge Road at the corner created by Little Park Road and Piddock Street. Their residential address was 76 Park Road (I think it was all Park Road back then) and the commercial side was 382 Lodge Road.
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Do you think possibly Kellys got it back to front?
 
I'm getting confused now.
Post #36 has an error: (edited in bold)
I agree with you Carolina about the order of the roads but the directory tells me Yarnolds was numbers 383, 384 and 385 - corner of Little Park Road and Lodge Road. While Heath's was 382 on Lodge Road at the corner created by Little Park Road and Piddock Street. Their residential address was 76 Park Road (I think it was all Park Road back then) and the commercial side was 382 Lodge Road.
Number 30 was the Douro Wine.
The article in #38 was the one I originally saw but the Ford Street corner with Lodge Road is clearly 30 on the map.
 
If Kellys got it wrong then they got it wrong from the 1890s through to the twentieth century. The 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses also give one of these two addresses as William Edwin Heath. The map shows that 76 Park Road road was next to 382 Lodge Road. I'm afraid Ted Rudge is wrong.
 
So looking again this morning - what a great site this is for info, it just shows how things are sometimes wrong. There was a wine & spirit merchants at No 30 Lodge Road 1901 census.30 lodge road 1901 census heath.jpg
 
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