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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Thomas Cubitt's Pimlico
« on: Wednesday 03 April 19 11:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, everyone, for your input. Thomas Cubitt was a developer whose Company re-built Osborne House (on the Isle of Wight) for Victoria and Albert and, in the mid-19th C, added the new wing to Buckingham Palace. He developed Belgravia, Pimlico and etc. He was a very enlightened employer of a large workforce of tradesmen, including builders, plumbers, carpenters.

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Family History Beginners Board / Thomas Cubitt's Pimlico
« on: Tuesday 02 April 19 12:38 BST (UK)  »
We are travelling to the UK in April this year and are concluding our time there with a 5-night stay in London. I hope to explore Pimlico, where my emigrant great grandfather, Thomas Davies, was born in 1829 and lived with his parents and siblings at 9 Commercial Road (now Ebury Bridge Road).

As he and his father (also Thomas) were in the employ of Thomas Cubitt. Does anyone have any suggestions about any things to view in Pimlico specifically connected to Thomas Cubitt eg. the location and any remnants of his Yard and Workshops between Lupus Street and the River Thames. Also any mid-19th C landmarks.

From recent photos of Ebury Bridge Road, it appears that there may still be 2-storey Victorian row houses along that street; if they date from the time of Cubitt’s development of Pimlico, then I might be able to view houses that my great great grandfather helped to build.

Thanks for any advice/suggestions that locals might be able to provide.

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