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Queen Street 1840

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Suzy

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My husbands 2x great grandmother was born at 3 Court, 3 House, Queen Street in 1840, St Philips Birmingham. I have looked on Google maps and the street is actually still there. but obviously the houses are no longer there. Does anyone know anything about this street? Or better still have any old photos of what it may have looked like.
Thanks
 
Suzy
I think you are mistaken in saying that the street is still there. Certainly there is a Queen St in Highgate, which goes back to the late 1800s, but do not think that it was there in 1840. Your address gives St Phillips, so the Queen St you are referring to occupied largely part of what is now New St station, as can be seen on the map c 1839 below

map c 1839 showing Queen St.jpg
 
Suzy

It would mean house number 3 in a terrace that was at the rear of the street facing houses. These courts were often known by numbers, sometimes by a name and sometimes were known as the back of a number of a street fronting house. Therefore number 5 at the back of number 120 became 5/120. It's where the term "back houses" comes from
 
This is Colmore Street which as Mike shows on his map is the continuation of Queen Street so perhaps the houses were the same and this gives you some idea of how the back to backs were (up the entry/passageway into a court yard)
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Carolina,

Your photo is Great Colmore Street in the Lee Bank area and not the Colmore Street that led to Queen Street as on Mike's map, though it does show a good example of a back court.
 
Thanks everyone. I guess the houses would still have looked a bit like this one anyway. I live in Sussex and have only just started finding a Birmingham connection with my husbands ancestors, so do not know much about the history of it. This web site is great though.
 
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