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Cowper Street

Pauline floyd said:
Im looking for information about a fire/explosion on cowper street i have searched the web high and low on and off for around 3 years now and can't find anything. My nan was caught up in this explosion she said she was 11 at the time so that would make it 1962 i beleive it was an old coal yard a lady sent her daughter to the shop for some petroleum jelly covered my nans leg in it as it was burned dont have much more info than that
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Hi Pauline, l‘m so thrilled to see these posts. For years I have also wanted proof about my explosion story ! I am one of the children mentioned in the newspaper report.(although they got our ages the wrong way round) I’m Linda and was 9 at the time. I remember car tyres flying around.We were thrown off our feet. We had cuts & grazes to our hands and legs and my mom was hit by a tyre, luckily not seriously hurt. I remember coming home from hospital covered in brown iodine.
I also went to William Cowper School. Absolutely loved it. The teachers were wonderful !
 
Linda Davies / Hudson said:
Hi Pauline, l‘m so thrilled to see these posts. For years I have also wanted proof about my explosion story ! I am one of the children mentioned in the newspaper report.(although they got our ages the wrong way round) I’m Linda and was 9 at the time. I remember car tyres flying around.We were thrown off our feet. We had cuts & grazes to our hands and legs and my mom was hit by a tyre, luckily not seriously hurt. I remember coming home from hospital covered in brown iodine.
I also went to William Cowper School. Absolutely loved it. The teachers were wonderful !
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Hi Linda Pauline is my grandmother I set this up to get answers for her I'm as my childhood was filled with so many questions thank you for reaching out
 
sylviasayers said:
On the 1911 census my grandparents and six of their children including my mother were living at 10 Burton Place, Cowper Street, which I can see on the map, thank you.
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My grandmother lived (next door?) at number 8 Burton Place at that time, with her grandmother and aunt, both her parents had died. Just found this out from the 1911 census. Thank you for posting the map.
 
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