Oliver street Birkenhead .house hopping family

[brigidmac]

Double apologies Stanmap and yes i can click on the pics and zoom without having to buy a subscription

Thanks so much i.ll go and play with those maps now

[brigidmac]

When i try and enlarge enough to see house numbers it does ask for a sub

The pale maps are very hard on my eyes
*Correction i tried again and got the right size and clear enough this time

It's a very long street and i felt i.d come across it before

Just checked
my grandmothers maternal great grandfather Nimrod Gardner  was also living there at no 232 Oliver street in 1891 and 1901 aged 64 +74

I wonder if her birth family were friends with adoptive family through the elders .

[brigidmac]

Thanks for that amazing link i.ve been zooming round old Birkenhead virtually looking at other nearby addresses that were significant for my grandmother b1899

Can't thank you enough .

[kathb]

My great grandfather was famous in my family for the number of times he moved. He said it was easier to move than decorate. However, I think it was due to rent prices.  When times were good they had a larger terraced property and when times were tight smaller houses.  This could have been the case with your ancestors.
Regards
Kathb

[brigidmac]

Good theory ,Kath thanks ...It may have been upsizing when they decided to love with daughter downssized
 when the children had all left home

[carol8353]

My mum grew up in Macclesfield Cheshire and lived in 5 different houses in the same street!

She said it would depend on the size of your family,often landlords owned the whole road.
So if you had a small family you had a 2 bed house,get more kids and you'd trundle across the street with all your belongings in a handcart to swop with someone whose child had just left home,or an elderly person who had just lost their partner.

Houses became unfit to live in and so they had to be moved once. And all the time they still shared the same toilet block at the bottom of the yard 

Mum said that it would also depend on whether the husband was in work or not,if they couldn't afford the rent on a larger house,they would be moved to a smaller one also owned by the same landlord.

Carol

[andrewalston]

It used to be quite common to move houses - people had few possessions, making it a lot easier than we consider it today.
Moving along the same street was common. Sometimes the move was to get a smaller or larger property, as Carol says.
Sometimes the rent might be cheaper at a house of the same type owned by a different landlord.
Sometimes people moved to be in a more convenient place, say to look after an ailing relative.
Sometimes, if they owed money, people would disappear with their belongings in the middle of the night - a "moonlight flit".
And sometimes you can't work out a reason. One of my gg grandfathers bought houses for his married children, all within shouting distance of his grocer's shop, probably so they could be called in to help out at a moment's notice. I find them moving at random between the houses, even though the buildings are all identical.