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Title: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: bugbear on Sunday 08 May 16 12:57 BST (UK)
A great-great-aunt from Norfolk died in Hastings (where she retired after being widowed in 1925).

She made it to a rather splendid 94 years, and died in 1949.

She was living at either "Fairford" or "Fairfold" (the newspapers differ), 45 St Helen's Rd, Hasting.

Can anyone more local than me confirm the house I've found?

Google  puts it here (click me)
 (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/45+St+Helen's+Rd,+Hastings,+East+Sussex+TN34+2LQ/@50.864283,0.5802031,3a,54.6y,59.05h,94.17t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-bfrZ2XRqi_3V_8hpGYMUg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-bfrZ2XRqi_3V_8hpGYMUg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D32.701675%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47df1ac1c3d58e1b:0x3c170aecd7163279!8m2!3d50.864379!4d0.5803204)

And the house does have 45 above the door.

Is it still call Fairford (or Fairfold)?

And (more worrying) has St Helen's Rd AKA the A2101 been renumbered since 1949?.

  BugBear
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 08 May 16 13:35 BST (UK)
Re renumbering - the number 45 in the glazing above the front door certainly looks original and the style matches some other houses in the street

Kay
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: bugbear on Sunday 08 May 16 16:15 BST (UK)
Re renumbering - the number 45 in the glazing above the front door certainly looks original and the style matches some other houses in the street

Kay

Good thought - thank you.

She had a nice view over the park (spin the scene 180 in google)

 BugBear
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: artifis on Sunday 08 May 16 17:38 BST (UK)
It might be worth contacting the Old Hastings Preservation Society - www.ohps.org.uk - to see if they have any record of this road being re-numbered.  Maybe a bit outside the area they're normally interested in but I found them very helpful in the past, likewise the Hasting's library people.
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: artifis on Sunday 08 May 16 17:44 BST (UK)
Looking at the 1:2500 1899 map of the area St Helen's Road was fully developed by then so I'd think it unlikely it was re-numbered.
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: bugbear on Sunday 08 May 16 18:44 BST (UK)
Thanks to all; I think (all research is a "best current approximation") I'll call it probably the right house.

 BugBear
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: stanmapstone on Sunday 08 May 16 19:29 BST (UK)
This 1955 map confirms that 45 is the right house. https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/581676/110379/13/101329
Zoom out.
Stan
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: bugbear on Monday 09 May 16 10:28 BST (UK)
This 1955 map confirms that 45 is the right house. https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/581676/110379/13/101329
Zoom out.
Stan

Very nice - thank you.

 BugBear
Title: Re: 45, St Helen's Rd, Hastings?
Post by: bugbear on Monday 09 May 16 11:49 BST (UK)
I thought that contributors to this thread might be interested to know, that as I traced Annie Jane back in Redgrave/Suffolk I found that while her father was Suffolk "born and bred", her mother (also Jane) was from the village of Fairford, Gloucestershire, which I think is evidently the name she gave number 45, as least for the duration of her residency.

      BugBear