jan i think i read some years ago that lucas gks employed over 10000 people including my dad and my aunt so not bad considering only a few years before joseph started with a little workshop in this streetI hadn't noticed so thanks for pointing it out, Lyn.
yes as most streets back then sylvia...a mixture of houses and little workshops at the back or actually inside the houses if they had 2 living rooms...the street i grew up in was just like that...spoon makers..pearl button makers..badge enamelling...jewellers..dress makers all sort of little industries...no wonder we were once known as the city of a thousand tradesThank you for this! It appears from one of the maps that shows the numbers as odd and even, that 61 was one house in from the Felt Works. Interesting that Thomas Taylor at Number 65 was a marine store dealer too. Many on the street appear to be shops or businesses (likely within their own living space as noted before) - what an industrial little street it was!
Great shot. we must have been about the N in King we were facing a factory. shows our back yards , but cannot focus in enough to see which one!An aerial view of Little King Street from 1950, unfortunately in shadow the day it was taken.
Chris, welcome to the Forum!Thanks so much. I haven’t got access to the 1921 census yet. I will see what I can find about Shepherd and Saunders (or similar).
In the end he had to leave the jewellery trade and went to work in the car industry.
The British Legion was directly opposite of the Lucas & Son - Tom Bowling Lamp Works which was pulled down in late 1966.A couple of photos of Little King Street in the late fifties and early 60's. One shows the British Legion Club and the other shows the Jarvis family in 1954 they must have had connections with the local shop because they are all sat outside it.
Phil
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