Brighton Place - renumbering

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jan 2008, 20:08

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Re 16 Brighton Place - A word of caution:

I had a quick look at work today and there's a problem in that Brighton Place was renumbered in the first half of last century (50s?) which means any records re number 16 in 1904 won't be today's number 16..... I don't have access to the records pre 1906 at my present place of work unfortunately.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 14 Jan 2008, 20:15

Poppy, thanks for that info. Presumably the deeds for the current no. 16 will reflect the re-numbering at the point it changed and perhaps we can work out from that which house was no. 16 in 1904. If that makes sense.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 14 Jan 2008, 22:21

I'm sure I've seen houses in Bellfield Street that look as if they'd been renumbered at some point too.
Often wondered at that
Of course it was Melville Street when I was young.

Ach, Arachnid and Izzie we may have been in the same crowds in Brighton Park!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jan 2008, 22:46

My impression and experience is that re-numbering has been necessary in older streets where large properties have sold off garden ground over the decades - a real pain for researchers, I'd imagine! The High Street has been renumbered at least twice from what I've seen!!

Post by **wangi** » 14 Jan 2008, 23:02

Somethings the Americans do well...

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 14 Jan 2008, 23:15

wangi wrote:Somethings the Americans do well...

What - re-number streets?

Post by **wangi** » 14 Jan 2008, 23:32

Nah, they number them in the first place that they'll never have to renumber them.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 15 Jan 2008, 11:56

Poppy wrote:Re 16 Brighton Place - A word of caution:

I had a quick look at work today and there's a problem in that Brighton Place was renumbered in the first half of last century (50s?) which means any records re number 16 in 1904 won't be today's number 16..... I don't have access to the records pre 1906 at my present place of work unfortunately.

Number 16 as was is currently number 32.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 15 Jan 2008, 17:55

You're kidding? Marya, do you know who is at no.32?

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 Jan 2008, 18:58

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 Jan 2008, 18:59

I'm not going to knock at their door and flash a postcard at them tho'

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 15 Jan 2008, 19:56

The renumbering seems to have come about because of the tenemants being built on the other side of the road from the Georgian villas - before that the villas were 1 2 3 4 5 6 etc in a row.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 15 Jan 2008, 20:25

Marya wrote:I'm not going to knock at their door and flash a postcard at them tho'

No of course not, they would think you were mad. Leave that sort of thing to me.

I did some googling. Is it the good doctor then? I don't think I have met him.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 Jan 2008, 21:57

Well, if you had come to the last park clean-ups I could have introduced you

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 15 Jan 2008, 22:12

That's unfair - I was working. Anyway, I'll just knock on his door and say I'm a friend of yours.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 Jan 2008, 22:16

That'll be me off another Christmas card list then