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Title: Help with door number please?
Post by: steeles39 on Wednesday 07 March 18 23:16 GMT (UK)
Hi!
With help from another forum we have worked out the 2nd address to be Prescott Street Brookfields does anybody know the number???
At first glance I think I can see 1 ? 4
Any help would be much appreciated  :-*
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: a chesters on Wednesday 07 March 18 23:23 GMT (UK)
To me, it looks like 124. The 4 appears very similar to the 4 of the address above, as does the 2.

Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Jool on Wednesday 07 March 18 23:35 GMT (UK)
Hi steeles39, welcome to Rootschat  :)

To me it looks like 174.  I don't think the middle digit is a 2, it doesn't look like it is formed in the same way as the 2 in the groom's age or the 2 in the marriage date at the bottom.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Bookbox on Wednesday 07 March 18 23:47 GMT (UK)
The last figure is probably 9. Compare with the bride's age of 19 years.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 07 March 18 23:52 GMT (UK)
I see 174 and that was my guess before I saw Jool's response.
Carol
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: solidrock on Thursday 08 March 18 02:01 GMT (UK)
My guess is 179.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Istrice on Thursday 08 March 18 02:13 GMT (UK)
I would agree with A. Chesters, and say that it is 124 Prescott Street.  The first address is 42 Benson Road.  Both the "2" and the "4" are written the same fashion in both addresses.
Istrice
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: sami on Thursday 08 March 18 02:40 GMT (UK)
I see 42 Benson Road and 174 Prescott Street.

sami
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 08 March 18 07:41 GMT (UK)
I think it is 129.

Add - or 179.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Thornwood on Thursday 08 March 18 09:00 GMT (UK)
124 is my reading of it
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: sugarbakers on Thursday 08 March 18 11:30 GMT (UK)
I agree 124 ... the couple are living at 42 Benson Rd in 1939.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 08 March 18 11:49 GMT (UK)
Quote from: sugarbakers on Thursday 08 March 18 11:30 GMT (UK)
I agree 124 ... the couple are living at 42 Benson Rd in 1939.

But compare the 9 in her age - 19. It's closer than the 4 in 42 Benson Road
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Thornwood on Thursday 08 March 18 15:19 GMT (UK)
 I agree that they look very similar but when looking at the 9 on her age the first stroke is light and rounded but on the address it is a bold downward stroke making me believe it is a 4.  So I still vote for 124.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Geoff-E on Thursday 08 March 18 15:56 GMT (UK)
According to the 1939 Register, several of the houses in Prescott St were what would now be called "houses of multiple occupation" ... rather like bedsits perhaps.
Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 08 March 18 16:13 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Thornwood on Thursday 08 March 18 15:19 GMT (UK)
I agree that they look very similar but when looking at the 9 on her age the first stroke is light and rounded but on the address it is a bold downward stroke making me believe it is a 4.  So I still vote for 124.

I darkened the various numbers and now think it is a 4 - so vote for 124  :)

Title: Re: Help with door number please?
Post by: steeles39 on Thursday 08 March 18 17:48 GMT (UK)
 :) :) thank you so so much :)
its such a task reading the writing  :-\  :D :D
I've just started my nans side and oh my days its hard work grandad's side was a lot more smooth sailing lol!