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« on: Wednesday 26 October 22 16:55 BST (UK) »
I'm researching the street I grew up on and it's history is quite long and extensive. Since it's origins of a dirt track through a forest to the present day the street has gone through 3 name changes. During the same time period, the houses on the street have been renumbered 3 times, two of which have occurred since the street was given its current name in 1867.
I'm trying to research specific houses and businesses and whilst some of the houses also have names that have lasted to the present day, which makes tracking them much easier, businesses often just give a number. Very occasionally I can work out what the number of a house would have been in say 1870 and therefore work out what the number of a business was 4 doors away but it's a very long road!
I'm presuming that the local council must have some kind of record of when the buildings were renumbered but would they keep a record of what every building number was and what it then became and what would such a document be called?
It's also not helped that the road falls across the boundary of two councils with one side of the road being one council and the other side being another!