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My mother and father were there at the right address but not me!! aged 12 and don't know what day it was on as I could be being evacuated at the time....... too young for being 'up the pub'.
Joe 

A big industry for wood turners was bannister rails and supports which were (the vertical support rails) turned by the hundreds according to the size of the building.
All done on a wood lathe ..... it was a good job particularly if you were able to afford a wood lathe.
Joe

My first job at age 15 was as an 'improver' (?) with the Foster MacLellan Company who made 'Doan's Pills (for back ache).It was at the latter end of WW2.
My first job was in making the tablet prior to coating it.
Coating the tablet was done in a line of concrete type machines where the tablets where a talc solution was ladled on the product whilst the machine was revolving until the right quantity was  achieved then it was coloured with a brown beeswax solution.
At no time was sugar used.
The tablet machines (about 12) were all belt driven and each punched out one tablet per second now there are machines that are known as 'multiples' and there are no leather belts.

So long ago.
Joe

Having now looked at the 1861 census I may have to eat my words about fashionability. There are some very large and apparently well-to-do households in Westbourne Square, some with 5, 6 or 7 servants - so it does look as though they must have been large and imposing residences.

You may be interested to know that 22 Westbourne Square was occupied in 1861 by John J Wynne, a 57 yr old Irish-born barrister, with his wife Marcia, four children and an Irish-born female servant.

I am 90 years old and now live in Australia but my memories of the area are quite vivid.
My family lived in Delamere Crescent which was below and parallel to Delamere Terrace which was opposite the canal from Blomfield Terrace.... I used to cross the canal bridge to go to Amberley Street school.
Between Delamere Terrace and Delamere Crescent was a Catholic school which I could see into from my home I could see class rooms and on my 'wag' days I could see children and teachers... I add this for historical purposes.In the same area was a nunnery............ it was quite narrow but seemed to accommodate quite a number of nuns.
most of this was destroyed by bombing I forget the date but Delamere Crescent was so damaged it was condemned and no doubt most,if not all,of the rest of the area was too.
As I said previously the area originally somewhat grand but at my time,in a two roomer,it was very moth eaten and ugly.
I will find the night of the bombing and add to the discussion
Joe

Best I can offer from my tree which may have a connection somewhere is that William Hirst married Abigail Pickels at Rothwell West Yorks  at 1790 and their first child named Sarah Hirst was born May 27 at Horbury and she married William Brown at Horbury 1827.
Joe