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Berkshire / The Harrisons & Craven Street/Road in Newbury
« on: Monday 10 August 20 15:17 BST (UK) »
Hello 
I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable/experienced with family & local history research than me may be able to help!
Last year I bought a house in Newbury with my partner and I'm doing my best to research the house and the families who have lived here before us. We live in one of the terraced houses in what was recorded as 'New Street' in the 1871 census and is now the Eastern end of Craven Road (linking to Bartholomew Street, numbered 9-31).
I've been told by one of the locals that our house was built by a local builders in the 1850s, by the name of Harrison. I have been able to verify that the Harrisons were a local carpentry/building firm with dwellings and a yard with workshops etc off of Bartholomew Street, which was re-named Bedford Place in 1878. Although no one by the name of Harrison was living at any of the new houses according to the 1871 census, a number of female Harrisons appear to have lived in our house/next door to our house so I'm fascinated by the possibility that the family not only built the houses but also lived in them too.
Bit of a long shot perhaps but wondered whether anyone frequenting these boards has:
- Researched the Harrisons in Newbury and may have more information about them/their building business?
- Good knowledge of the development of the West Fields area/Craven Road so that I may be able pinpoint exactly when my house and the others in the terrace were built?
- Any further information on the fate of Bedford Place? It still appears on the OS map of 1932-34 and its entrance from Bartholomew street would have been almost directly opposite the Coopers Arms, I believe.
I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable/experienced with family & local history research than me may be able to help!
Last year I bought a house in Newbury with my partner and I'm doing my best to research the house and the families who have lived here before us. We live in one of the terraced houses in what was recorded as 'New Street' in the 1871 census and is now the Eastern end of Craven Road (linking to Bartholomew Street, numbered 9-31).
I've been told by one of the locals that our house was built by a local builders in the 1850s, by the name of Harrison. I have been able to verify that the Harrisons were a local carpentry/building firm with dwellings and a yard with workshops etc off of Bartholomew Street, which was re-named Bedford Place in 1878. Although no one by the name of Harrison was living at any of the new houses according to the 1871 census, a number of female Harrisons appear to have lived in our house/next door to our house so I'm fascinated by the possibility that the family not only built the houses but also lived in them too.
Bit of a long shot perhaps but wondered whether anyone frequenting these boards has:
- Researched the Harrisons in Newbury and may have more information about them/their building business?
- Good knowledge of the development of the West Fields area/Craven Road so that I may be able pinpoint exactly when my house and the others in the terrace were built?
- Any further information on the fate of Bedford Place? It still appears on the OS map of 1932-34 and its entrance from Bartholomew street would have been almost directly opposite the Coopers Arms, I believe.