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Moseley Rd., Deritend
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Thanks for the updates Ell. Good to see progress. Viv.
yes phil good news for those...there are one or two georgian in hunters road that could do with some TLC
lyn
Can anyone tell me what this address, found in White's Directory 1873, means?
Bk 72 Sherlock St, h Peter's Pl, John St Moseley Road.
I get the back of 72 Sherlock Street. Does it front onto Peter's Place? or does he live in four different places all at once?
My ancestor was a Glass button, bead and ornament manufacturer and sometimes a Baker as well.
Bk 72 Sherlock St, h Peter's Pl, John St Moseley Road.
I get the back of 72 Sherlock Street. Does it front onto Peter's Place? or does he live in four different places all at once?
My ancestor was a Glass button, bead and ornament manufacturer and sometimes a Baker as well.
It means that his business was at the back of no 72 Sherlock St, but his home was at Peter's place in John St, which is off Mosely Road. White;s directories did this , combining the business and home addresses in one list, whereas Kellys & the PO directories had separate lists. If you go to John St on the Street list , then it has(Moseley Road) after it, meaning that it is off Moseley Road, while going down the list of properties James Prince, cowkeeper, is listed as at St Peters Place, which would have been a terrace off the Street
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mike
Having once lived in the Balsall Heath area I thought I knew Moseley Road well, so never having heard of John Street was interested to see your post. With a bit of delving I found that not long after 1873 the name was changed to St John's Road but this name was not a lot familiar to me either, so a little more delving told me that it used to me the name for the top end of Runcorn Rd from Moseley Rd to the railway track until the rest of Runcorn Rd was cut at the beginning of last century at which time I assume the whole road was renamed Runcorn Rd.
Having once lived in the Balsall Heath area I thought I knew Moseley Road well, so never having heard of John Street was interested to see your post. With a bit of delving I found that not long after 1873 the name was changed to St John's Road but this name was not a lot familiar to me either, so a little more delving told me that it used to me the name for the top end of Runcorn Rd from Moseley Rd to the railway track until the rest of Runcorn Rd was cut at the beginning of last century at which time I assume the whole road was renamed Runcorn Rd.
