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Topic: Retreat Place, Parkstone. (Read 466 times)
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Jo Harding
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Posts: 354
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hello again,
I found that old street maps and directories in the Poole Museum, the library doesn't hold any of these. They have a Local History Centre at the Museum, so I have learned something myself.
The directories of Parkstone are not done on a street by street basis. The are in names of residents and only the more prosperous ones at that.
The very helpful lady produced several maps of that era. These show the Retreat Hotel and Woking Road etc. We could not find Sandy Lane, Hitchings Terrace, or some of the other places mentioned by the enumerator. The maps show the larger roads only. It was clear that there were many more minor ones but these are not named.
Looking at the census, I can say that Randolph Road is still there. This appears on Page 9. The Retreat Hotel is where Waitrose is now. The maps show clusters of houses at the back of Woking Road and the Retreat Hotel. These ran along the rear and side of Randolph Road too.
I think we can say for sure that Retreat Place does not exist now. Randolph Road is still there however.
The area can be viewed quite well on Google maps and it is possible to see the new development of houses to the rear of Woking Road.
Jo
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Redroger
RootsChat Aristocrat
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Hi all, Site playing me up tonight, this is my 5th attempt to get onto this thread! As promised I cased the area this morning at 8.45am after visiting Waitrose,probably walked over the site of Retreat Place at the veg area, I can confirm Jo's findings, and like her was struck by the unamed private road on the north side of Woking Road, from the outside though the properties on this road appeared new without going inside I was unable to determine whether they were in fact a very heavy refurbishment of older cottages. The Liberal Club on Salisbury Road was built 100 years ago, foundation stone laid by Lady Wimborne 1909. From the 1900 map I called up on old maps and the position of the Retreat, a look at a later map (say c1920) should determine the precise position of Retreat Place in relation to the Liberal club, my guess would be immediately adjoining it.
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sanderton
RootsChat Pioneer
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Hi Jo.
The 1891 ref is RG12/1639 page 12. The family listed at No 10 were my rellies. Harry, head, was my gt. grandfather and his son Mark my grandfather.
I was curious as to where they lived. The family originated in Cranborne. When Harry and Tamar married they moved to Constitution Hill and then to Retreat Place. In the 1898/9s the family moved to Camberley in Surrey this being a developing town. Both Harry and Mark had business as builders employing about twenty men.
I was curious as to where they were living, but if the place no longer exists
is not worth visiting.
Thanks for your help. Dud.
Hi, seem we are cousins of some kind as Harry/Tamar are my my great great grandparents via their daughter Clara, who died when I was two.
I would be very interested in any information you have on them - I only have what I've managed to track down from census records online.
stuart at beaconhill dot me dot uk
BTW, 10 Retreat TERRACE Parkstone is where I beive my grandfather was born, perhaps Clara inherited it?
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