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hatchett street pics

Astoness

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hi folks..would anyone have any pics of the old houses that were in hatchett street newtown please...

thanks for any help

lyn
 
oh thats a great start...thanks moss...im just trying to help someone who was born in the back to backs in hatchett st....its only a small street so i guess pics will be hard to come by..

thanks again...

lyn
 
must be slipping folks...i have had these photos for couple of years now and thought i had posted them...couple of the street and of havergal house which opened in 1890 as a girls club..a place for factory girls young and old to socialise..learn to knit and sew and were taken on outings to the lickey hills or the seaside...it was eventually opened to boys and continued until the 1960s when it was taken over the boys brigade...the building is still there..

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map here for new member martyn showing no 53 hatchett street in purple almost on the corner with summer lane...the house was still there in the 1950s

lyn

hatchett st map no 53 in purple 1950s.jpg
 
must be slipping folks...i have had these photos for couple of years now and thought i had posted them...couple of the street and of havergal house which opened in 1890 as a girls club..a place for factory girls young and old to socialise..learn to knit and sew and were taken on outings to the lickey hills or the seaside...it was eventually opened to boys and continued until the 1960s when it was taken over the boys brigade...the building is still there..

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The Havergal House in these photos dates from the autumn of 1934, the foundation stone being laid in September of that year.
 
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