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Cromwell Street

What made you think there was once a workhouse there?. Was it a long list of people at one address on the census, in which case it could have been what we would now call a dosshouse
 
Gbrownhill said:
My family the Edges, Goughs and Hunts lived in Berkeley Road East and my mother (Beryl) and uncle Albert went to the Holy Family School on the Coventry Road, which got bombed out as it was by the BSA. My gran lived at 31 Berkeley Road East and my grandpa at 26, they got married and bought number 24 and my mom got married and bought number 18, so as a young girl I lived so close to my grandparents, great granny and aunt across the road in 31. My uncle has recently died so the family homes have now all gone.
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my family were Edges in the area, but theres lot of them about.!
 
Has anyone any knowledge of sewing factories in this area of Cromwell street where distant relatives, the Seville's once lived, they worked in the factory and lived behind it.The back of 228.
 
Kate joan said:
Has anyone any knowledge of sewing factories in this area of Cromwell street where distant relatives, the Seville's once lived, they worked in the factory and lived behind it.The back of 228.
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You do not say when this was. The factory would be somewhere around 34 Rupert St
 
Hi all,

I'm looking for any info about 'Rose Cottage' on Cromwell Street. My 4x great-grandfather Thomas Inman died there of phthisis (TB) in September 1867, aged 63 (see attached pic). The woman present at his death lived in a housing court over by Summer Lane. But as the only other mention of Rose Cottage I can find through Google is of someone else being born there, I'm wondering what it was? Some kind of charity
/cottage hospital, or a dosshouse as Mikejee suggests?

Thanks in advance (if anyone ever reads this!)

THOMAS INMAN DEATH CERT 07-09-1867.jpg
 
could be difficult finding out exactly what rose cottage was...it may even be that it was the name of a line of houses which had a name plaque on the wall...we see this quite often..just trying to think of a way we could find out...do you have the name of the person you found that was born at rose cottage ? and also the year?

lyn
 
Lyn. bottom right hand corne ris a short portion of street. diagonally across. No name on street, but at right hand end name is written on edge-"Cromwell ST". The ordnance do that if the portion of the street with name is not written on the street on the map. similarly the top court 32 name is written in on edge, then below it Rose cottages
 
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