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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: Jack TT on Tuesday 13 November 12 22:08 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone have any details of Lesly Street London N 7, now demolished
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Hi - looks like it was there until 1973, when the highway was 'stopped-up': http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/45869/pages/196
Regards
Rob
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Thanks Rob
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Article here on the street from 1972 http://archive.tribunemagazine.co.uk/article/14th-july-1972/7/ow-far-will-islington-go-to-eep-the-squatters-out
Are you trying to go back in time with the street (there seems to have been a name change around 1912 to Lesly Street it seems)?
Monica
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Trying to find our any information regards history, people, stories etc
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Does anyone have any details of Lesly Street London N 7, now demolished
I remember Lesly Street; I used to live there. At the top was Roman Way with the best fish and chip shop in the area. Fish was a bob and chips were a penny. At the top right corner of Lesly Street in Roman Way was a greengrocers. At the bottom (odd numbers side) was a pub, Reid's Stout etc.). We always played cricket in the summer and football in the winter. Goalposts and wickets were painted on the wall next to the pub. Marbles in the gutter, Crown cork and picture-card tossing to edge of pavement all the year through. St. Davids Church was opposite the end of the street and Westbourne Road Junior Boys School was next to it.
Barry
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Thanks Barry, can you say what years that you were there? and and other memories of events,families, etc
regards
Jack
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Thanks Barry, can you say what years that you were there? and and other memories of events,families, etc
regards
Jack
Hello Jack,
I lived there from 1946 until 1968.
We had the Coronation Street Party in 1953.
We did not have any bathrooms, that I am aware of, and used to wash in the sink and bath in a tin bath. Everybody had a coal fire in most rooms, including the bedrooms. These all contributed to the terrible smog we used to experience. I can remember some families in the street. The Stuarts, Hollands, Turks, Aldridges, Smiths, Gibbs, Coxes, Mackinnons, Edmeades on the corner shop.
Newalls, Hoyes (who had stall in Holloway Road) and the mother used to work in the bagwash shop in Sheringham Road. The BBc mentioned Lesly Street a few months ago, talking about the Caledonian Road. The grandmother interviewed I remembered as a very young girl. I have never forgotten her as she had very fine skin around her eyes and you could see the delicate veins underneath. We had a murder once. when the son stabbed the lodger.
None of the houses had carpets and had, instead, linoleum on the floors. Every house had a big stone front step with steps leading down to the pavement. Every house had a basement area.
Very few people had a telephone. The electricity was supplied by the London Electricity Road (L.E.B) Gas was supplied by the North Thames Gas Board and water was Thames Water. Any phone was one of the Post Office's (GPO). The Coal was delivered in Big Heavy Duty Sacks on a horse drawn cart by Mr. Newall and it was pulled by this huge carthorse. The United Dairies Milkman was called Charlie. Rag and Bonemen used to come around and gave you a goldfish for rags. The ice-cream man used to come round on a bike. The brand was either Fry's, Nielsen or Eldorado. the ordinary block cost 2d (tuppence).
On a Sunday there used to come around a very nasal singer. Also the shell-fish man, with his barrow, came on a Sunday. Barrow boys with fruit came around any day.
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Thank you, Barry, for sharing your memories. They're fascinating. ;D
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Thanks Barry, great memories, may sound a strange request, but do you have any recollections of an elderly gentleman who lived on the odd numbers side possibly 13 or 15, who had a taxidermy exhibit in his basement window, think they were hummingbirds, quite a large display item?
regards
Jack
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It first appears, as Lesly St, on the 1878 Stanford map, just above the K-shaped Pentonville Prison on the right of http://london1878.com/stanford10.htm It may be there, unnamed, on the 1868 map on the same site.
Looking at London atlasses for several later dates I can't see any evidence of a renaming in 1912. The Tribune archive site that I think Monica got that from seems to be down at present.
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Thanks Chris
Jack
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I lived there from 1946 until 1968.
We had the Coronation Street Party in 1953.
Barry,
How far is this from Thornhill Square off Caledonian Road?
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Hi
as far as I am aware, Thornhill square was around half a mile from Lesly street, you had to walk up Roman Way toward the back of Pentonville prison, then turn right towards Caledonian road,
regards
Jack
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Thank you for responding!
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Hi
Does anyone have any pictures of lesly street. i was born there and i wonder does anyone remember mrs goldsmith the lady who made the toffee apples in westbourne rd
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Hi Winn
Could you tell me what years you lived there?
I used to live there in the 60s/70s and am finding out any info on the old area
regards
jack
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Hi Jack
i was born there in 1952 i think we moved out in 1958 however i do remember the pub that was on the corner and the food shop that was on the other corner.i am the youngest of six children that were born in lesly street. Sadly all our boys have died my sister would have better memories of the street then me .if the is anything specific you would like to know i could ask her.i also have memories of the rag and bone man who used to call to the street.also i have remembered a big family that lived there called the flanagans. the smiths and the gibbs family who have already been mentioned in the forum.
Back in them days people were very poor but in general the women help each other and would feed other children in the street if they could.
Best regard to you Winn
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Thanks for the reply Winn, I knew some of the younger Flanagans as they lived opposite me. I also seem to remember a fruit and veg shop cum coal supplier at the Roman way end, we arrived there around 1963ish if my memory is correct, there was also a Goodman family. It was very multicultural when we lived there as well as very lively at weekends! my parents drank at the various pubs along Roman way, the pub at the Westbourne road end had gone when we arrived and I think was replaced with a fruit and veg shop.
Thanks again for the reply
Jack
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Be glad that the pub had gone Jack mr brown who ran it was a tyrant to the kids if they throw the ball on the wall at the side of his pub
best Winn
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My maternal grandfather, John Albert "Jack" Collier, was born at 26 Lesly Street on 31 October 1894. I would be very grateful if someone could describe in some detail the construction and appearance of the residential buildings. For example, were they stone or brick?; you (Barry) mentioned they had a basement, but how many floors high were they?; were they all attached to one another? I would just like to have better understanding of how the Collier family lived if possible. Thanks in advance for any assistance you might provide.
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Ref. pictures of Lesly Street , here is a photo of my wife riding her trike in Lesly Street around 1960ish .Back then her name was Christine Hagger.
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Thank you for sharing the lovely picture of Christine i remember them
3 wheeler bikes very well
best regards
Winn
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To Union jack.
The buildings were all terraced, odd numbers on 1 side evens on the other. From street level you had to walk up a short flight of stairs to the first floor, there were 4 levels in total including a basement. The previous photo shows the railings around the basement, I think were used to call these an "arie".
To get to the basement you had to enter the house and walk down the stairs. As far as I remember each floor had a lounge/kitchen in the one room, then 2 other rooms that were used as bedrooms, however the basement only had 1 bedroom, the other space was taken up with a bath and exit to the garden. On the 2nd floor at the back there was a area outside the rear window known as the "lids", this was a roof covering over the first floor flat, I also seem to remember a toilet on the 2nd floor and the ground floor, however this may have been different in the other houses. The buildings were made of red brick and the roofs were flat tarmac type.
I am sure there are other features that I have forgot, but hope this helps.
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Thanks so much, Jack TT;
The details you've provided are very helpful and greatly appreciated.
Jack
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My relative Joseph Rawlings ( Wood machinist)and family lived at 24 Lesly st, in 1911.
Chooch
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Just found this picture on the internet, think it`s Lesly street.
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Thanks for that, just goes to show what information is out there, think that is the view looking towards Westbourne Road.
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Hello
I don't think this is esly st the houses are on the level Lesly st had doorsteps up the front .
I have been looking for ages for a picture but with no luck yet.i do love this picture though and wonder where it is .
Best regards win
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If you look at the left of the picture towards the bottom of street, you will see a man standing on the top of the steps, I must admit it looks a lot smaller than I remember it though! I am sure that the street sign at the bottom road says Westbourne road. It would be nice to get some other photos that I are in people scrap albums etc. Can anyone say the source of this picture in case the y have any more?
Regards
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Google Squash Case Study One for a description of the picture I posted previously they seem to think it`s Lesly Street.
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Amazing how did you find that hidden gem!!
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My relative Joseph Rawlings ( Wood machinist)and family lived at 24 Lesly st, in 1911.
Chooch
Hi Cooch,
I'm trying to track down a gentleman by the name of David J C Gafney born in 1938 at 24 Lesly Street N7. I appreciate it is an extremely long shot, but you wouldn't have any connection, would you?
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Yes definitely Lesly street I remember the low block of flats at the end of the road on the right hand side as you look at the picture I was born at 12 Lesly Street.
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The room where the kitchen was to the back of 12 Lesly Street with a view of the fireplace my brother was born at 12 Lesly street Leonard Paul Bernard Coulson 1960-1961
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Hi. I was interested in finding out what was located at 34 Lesley Street around 1914 as I found a postcard addressed to a Mrs Hunt at that address asking her to move some items into the shop for the sender. Just curious, whether anyone knew what the shop was. Happy to share images of postcard if interested. Image size upload too small to do so right now from my phone. Thanks. Scott