Recent content by Bicko

Thanks for the quick response to my question. I’m wondering how they acquired the land for the park as they’d have had to knock down 5 or 6 houses and clear the site.

Thanks for the information and quick response (I only asked the question at 11pm last night!) So, if the houses were still there in 1946 I wonder how the land occupied by about 5 or 6 houses was acquired to become a small park? Upon further investigation It seems my ancestors lived at number 39...

Does anyone know why the house numbers (according to Google Maps) stop at 27 and the restart at 43? This is the site of Trafalgar Road park now, but according to my family research in the late 1800's my relatives lived at number 37 and had done for a few decades. Were a few houses bombed in...