Great Brook Street Barracks

[oldMohawk]

Another photo of the Great Brook Street Barracks obviously derelict. St James Church in the background.

from Shoothill

 

[oldMohawk]

This aerial view dated 1933 shows new housing being built on the barracks site. Great Brook Street on the right.

image source 'britainfromabove'
A similar aerial view dated 2021

image source Google

 

[Nakishajordan]

Anyone know how/ what the barracks was used for/as during WW1?

I was wondering this,
My grand mother who moved there in 1949 when she was 5, and lived there till she was 15 had always said her house was haunted, and that many times her and her siblings often saw a man on the landing coming down from the attic, and a few other spooky things often happened,

I didn’t realise that these houses weren’t actually that old till reading a lot of posts about great Brook street and how it’s changed through the years but knowing it was the barracks and that maybe that’s why it was haunted as she called it,

She also said it had servant bells in the house that sometimes would ring on their own

 

[pjmburns]

Not sure if this helps or not.
Kelly's entry 1908


but in 1915 the entry reads

In 1913 the entry was the same as 1915 (commanders had changed slightly) but with one addition

 

[SA23]

Has anyone got any info on Great Brook Street area around 1946/47. The Italian quarter, or St Michaels Church. Annie Maria Harrison

 

[SA23]

I was wondering this,
My grand mother who moved there in 1949 when she was 5, and lived there till she was 15 had always said her house was haunted, and that many times her and her siblings often saw a man on the landing coming down from the attic, and a few other spooky things often happened,

I didn’t realise that these houses weren’t actually that old till reading a lot of posts about great Brook street and how it’s changed through the years but knowing it was the barracks and that maybe that’s why it was haunted as she called it,

She also said it had servant bells in the house that sometimes would ring on their own

Do you know what school your grandmother went to on great Brook street in 1949