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Hi
Thanks everyone for your time and effort regarding Bridge Street. I too have found it on newer maps when older ones had changed it to Charlotte Street. I found a map where North Street had been absorbed by Charlotte Street, but not Bridge Street, so it appears to have been done in phases. I suppose that once the bridge had gone, the name no longer seemed relevant, but it appears as Charlotte Street on one map I found on which the bridge is still standing.

Thanks again,
Al

Hi,

I have ancestors who lived in Bridge Street, Kingston upon Hull in the 1871 census and I cannot currently find the street on maps. The enumerator began at Dock Office Row then moved to Bridge Street, which seems quite long and included Jarvis Square. They then visited a property on Dock Street before moving on to Trippett Street and beyond.

I have found Dock Offices (yellow on map),Trippett Street (green), Dock Street (orange), and I have also found 'New Bridge Street', which i have marked in purple and which does not seem long enough to contain all the properties in the census. The name 'New Bridge Street' may suggest there was on original Bridge Street which changed its name; the main contender for this would be George Street which runs into Charlotte Street (both in blue) which then crosses over a body of water, i.e. over a bridge, from whence, I am thinking, it derived its old name.

Can anyone help me with this, please? Thanks very much for your time; as always, it is much appreciated,

Al

Hi, Molly,
Thanks again for your industry. Yes' I'd seen the grand frontage of the building, but imagined there'd perhaps be older and more basic structures behind that. I saw a business card which had a drawing of the works on which arched windows could be seen, but it's impossible to say what the buildings were made of. I'll take a trip to the archives and see what I can find.

Thanks again,

Al

Hi, Molly,
Thanks for the correction. I hadn't made that link re Fer and Ham and am much obliged for the insight. I have been researching this aspect of my family tree this last few weeks; I have photo of John Webb, my 2nd great-grandfather who lived in Rotherham, with about 30 other men and boys in working garb in front of a stone building with cast iron arched windows and am trying to find out where the photo was taken. Any help would be much appreciated. I have a feeling it is at the Effingham Works as he lived at New Zealand (the street) and then Frederick Street in his later life when this photo was probably taken and Effingham Works was just a couple of hundred yards away.
Thanks again,
Al

Hi, again,
On both Ancestry and Findmypast Sutton has been transcribed as Sulton and so it did not show up in searches for Sutton; it did not show up with the variations box ticked either. I have corrected it on both platforms and so future searches will find it. Yes, as you say, the neighbours are still there and so it is certainly the same chap. When daughter Elizabeth married at Holy Trinity in 1854 she said she lived in Hatton's Yard, so I knew it was there somewhere. I could have done what you did and searched all of Holy Trinity page by page... shame on me but kudos to you and thanks again

Best wishes,
Al