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Heneage Street

Astoness said:
no worries so are you looking for photos of the brew house ..the pickle factory or both ? to be honest i think we have posted all the photos we have of this street but i can double check my files

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Both please if you could thank you x
 
My great grandfather, Thomas Cross lived with his family in Heneage Street in the 1920s. They lived at 3/56 which was the back to back houses, next to the Star Works factory. It would be interesting to see any more photos of the street.
 
HarryTRC said:
My great grandfather, Thomas Cross lived with his family in Heneage Street in the 1920s. They lived at 3/56 which was the back to back houses, next to the Star Works factory. It would be interesting to see any more photos of the street.
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I'm fairly certain that this photo shows the front of No. 56.
 

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Thank you for the message . I've since found out that there is a photo of henage street with the brew house from the back . I've see it on here before. Well my dad had a sister and although my aunt had passed joan her friend is very much alive and she has told me that the house next to it is my dads bedroom x
 
HarryTRC said:
Thank you for these photos. May I ask what characteristics in the photo makes you believe it is No. 56?
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There are 3 shops and then an entry to the court behind, No. 56 is the shop just before this entry. No. 58 (or possibly 59) is set back from the frontage, I couldn't find a similar arrangement on the rest of the street.
On the left of the first shop there appears to be some sort of access to No. 57, this can be seen on the 1899 map attached,
Hope this helps.
 

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brummy-lad said:
There are 3 shops and then an entry to the court behind, No. 56 is the shop just before this entry. No. 58 (or possibly 59) is set back from the frontage, I couldn't find a similar arrangement on the rest of the street.
On the left of the first shop there appears to be some sort of access to No. 57, this can be seen on the 1899 map attached,
Hope this helps.
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Amazing, it was only until I looked at the 1899 map instead of the 1945 one it finally made sense. I thought I was a good investigator, but you're on the next level. So if this is indeed correct, the building in the center of the photo doesn't exist by 1945/1950s, but 56 indeed remains.

Thank you for the photo and thank you for your expertise. Can you remember where you got this photo from? I'm going to see if I can locate a higher quality version of it.
 
HarryTRC said:
Amazing, it was only until I looked at the 1899 map instead of the 1945 one it finally made sense. I thought I was a good investigator, but you're on the next level. So if this is indeed correct, the building in the center of the photo doesn't exist by 1945/1950s, but 56 indeed remains.

Thank you for the photo and thank you for your expertise. Can you remember where you got this photo from? I'm going to see if I can locate a higher quality version of it.
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Hi Harry, sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. I've tried a reverse image search on google but it doesn't give any matches. The only hope is that the original poster on BHF can scan the image at a better resolution.
 
dwarfman said:
In fact i just discovered Herbert Chester andwife/children lived at 5 London Terrace, Back of Willis Street in 1911 - Any help identfying this is appreciated as i can't find the location on Willis St. They then reappear at 2 Ashted Grove, behind 181 Heneage Street from 1920 to Herbert's death in 1931. His wife remained there until her death in 1940.
It is fascinating how small our world is. I made a good friend who later married my sister and his father's family also lived on Heneage St and he had a childhood memory of the Chester's running the shop, he recalled it as a fruit & veg shop so this would be in the 1930s. Any more information anyone can trace on the Chester family at these locations, a photo of the building itself (impossible i'm sure), and location of the other houses would be superb and my elderly parents just love this information as they were not aware of any of it until i started researching it all! Thanks all
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My family lived at No3 Ashted grove (181 henage)
 
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