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Lady Di
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Re: Do these streets still exist
« Reply #15 on: Monday 22 January 07 10:42 GMT (UK) »
Ahhhhh Prue - but your lot were Aussies - that makes up for not being Londoners  Wink


I do recall having seen this map a long time ago and had forgotten all about it. It is fabulous - I've found just so many places of interest (to me) that I could be here all night  Grin Grin Grin

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TATTERSALL : NSW,SSX/Brighton
GINGER        : London
AGGS           : Norfolk & London
GOODWIN   : Kent


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Re: Do these streets still exist
« Reply #16 on: Monday 22 January 07 10:44 GMT (UK) »
Not sure if you know about this 'old wonder'
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
A truly amazing look at previous times.
Apart from the geographical help with maps and old streets, the demographicals are quite interesting.
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« Reply #17 on: Monday 22 January 07 10:59 GMT (UK) »
Oh - another great site (added to fav's) particularly as one of mine was a Policeman in London....

Thanks Sue - no sleep for me tonight  Wink
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« Reply #18 on: Monday 22 January 07 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Just to add my 2 penn'th

Carey St ( Lincoln Inn  Fields)  lies immediately behind the Royal Courts of Justice which has a back entrance there.  It was always well known as the place bankrupts ended up thus giving rise to the saying that someone who squanders their money will end up in Carey St.

No way, Bob
Tottenham is way out to the north of London.
Working north from Pentonville is Camden, Islington, Hornsey, Stoke Newington then Tottenham.

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« Reply #19 on: Monday 22 January 07 20:59 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Meliora,

Every bit of information adds to the story.

I can now cross off Tottenham as well. I'm having great fun with all the maps and links - thanks everyone

Di
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GOODWIN   : Kent


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« Reply #20 on: Friday 18 January 08 10:51 GMT (UK) »
Hello, am new to this board and while browsing, came across your quest.  Didn't look like you'd got anywhere with Shaw's Gardens?  I live in St Giles, know it's history pretty well and have searched the local history society's very detailed book "Street of St Giles", plus a 1748 indexed map.  No sign of Shaw's Gardens at all - which leads me to wonder whether it could possibly have been Short's Gardens - which is quite a prominent street, although in a very poor area for much of the 17 & 1800s, (the workhouse was on it from the late 1700s).  It's existed from about 1720 and is still here.

Depending on how your source came to be recorded, I'm wondering if it could have simply been misheard when written down? - Shaw's being rather more common Shorts.

If you have access to a current map, it runs westwards from the northern end of Drury Lane.  Today the name continues all the way to the junction with Monmouth St, but before 1906 the name only applied as far as Neal St.  I think it must have been renumbered because today the lowest numbers are in the western-most section that was Queen St before 1906. The odd numbers are all on the north side.  A site that searches maps by postcode will get you to the street with WC2H 9AP.

There's a very helpful local history unit that may be able to tell you if they're aware of a Shaw's Gardens : www.camden.gov.uk/localstudies   

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Re: Do these streets still exist
« Reply #21 on: Friday 25 January 08 08:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi SharonW,

Welcome to Rootschat. Hope you have a great time on here where everyone is just as friendly and helpful as you have been.

Thank you for all the information about Shaw/Short street/gardens. It's been a while since I looked at that side of the family so I will go and recheck all my sources and information.

I'll also check the Camden Local Studies site as well.

Many thanks

Di
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MOULE         :Whaddon/Cambs
SMITH          :SSX/Brighton and Birmingham
TATTERSALL : NSW,SSX/Brighton
GINGER        : London
AGGS           : Norfolk & London
GOODWIN   : Kent


Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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