eliot street

[Astoness]

would anyone have any pics please of eliot street....

many thanks...

lyn

 

[Phil]

Lyn

The only ones I have got only show the school.

Phil

 

[Astoness]

thanks phil...if they are old pics i the school i would appreciate them please...ive got a couple of up to date ones already...

cheers

lyn

 

[MWS]

Anyone know why this street was re-named, previously being Hutton Street? Thanks.

 

[mw0njm.]

as far as i remember its always been eliot st

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[MWS]

This is the 1889 map...

 

[Astoness]

Anyone know why this street was re-named, previously being Hutton Street? Thanks.

hi mark that is interesting...just looked in my book of st names and it changed from hutton st to eliot st in 1897...it says most likely called so after the rev w eliot vicar of aston parish church who was also a prominent member of the aston school board..

lyn

 

[MWS]

Thanks Lyn. I wonder if it was named after someone named Hutton originally and if so why it was deemed he no longer merited a street.

The school appears to pre-date the name change (see map).

Also possibly mentioned as Hutton Street school with regards to a suicide in 1887.

 

[Astoness]

Thanks Lyn. I wonder if it was named after someone named Hutton originally and if so why it was deemed he no longer merited a street.

The school appears to pre-date the name change (see map).

Also possibly mentioned as Hutton Street school with regards to a suicide in 1887.

that is quite possible mark..at the min i can only think of birminghams first historian william hutton but of course there could well of been other well known huttons that actually worked and lived in the nechells area

lyn

 

[Vivienne14]

There was also an Edward Hutton, Birmingham archaeologist. Can’t say I’d heard of him before, but he took a ‘famous walk’ along Hadrian’s Wall. Viv.