Where to find out how a street got its name?

[sospiri]

Kat,

On the map link above, delete the copyright notice and the map will appear. On the right hand side, midway down is the word St James. Zoom in with the mouse wheel and under this is the wording St James Ward. This goes right across the old Infirmary and Marlborough Street is just north of this. But not in sufficient detail to find the Terrace.

The Terrace is obviously developed by Strawbridge, but I doubt if records have survived to prove this.

Maurice

 

[Kat7272]

Will do Maurice, thank you.

Shame the terrace isn't there but you cannot win em all I suppose!

 

[Kat7272]

Bristol council have got back to me. The road is thought to be named after Cyril Strawbridge, a coal merchant.

 

[Kat7272]

Long Nuke Road. B31 Just come across this name, where would this name come from does anyone know?

 

[castalla]

Anybody know where Millington Road Hodge hill came from next to Oakdale Road Erminghton Creesent Chipperfield Road ¿

 

[Penns]

I got two roads named in Birmingham by writing to the council and explaing the industrial history of the site and amazingly they agreed and named both roads!

 

[devonjim]

For almost 23 years I lived on MOAT LANE Yardley. Now it must mean that there was a caste there at some time, with a Moat around it???

Do you remember the track behind the houses in Vera Rd., opposite the park in Moat Lane, by the bus stop.
I'm being told it was called "Woodbank" Is that right? I always thought it was just an access to an allotment site. I thought I know a man who will know!

 

[www.midlandspubs.co.uk]

For almost 23 years I lived on MOAT LANE Yardley. Now it must mean that there was a caste there at some time, with a Moat around it???

Your old family pile no doubt. I guess you had a drawbridge to get your bike out!

 

[Donna]

Anybody know where Millington Road Hodge hill came from next to Oakdale Road Erminghton Creesent Chipperfield Road ¿

No but I had a friend called Maureen who used to live on millington