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Staffordshire / Re: Place name from form
« on: Monday 06 March 23 09:11 GMT (UK)  »
Wychnor is nearer to Barton than Burton, but if he has just been given an address then that is what was recorded.

I can almost claim to be a maltster from Burton on Trent - I worked for a malting company, and lived just over the border in Derbyshire. :)

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Staffordshire / Re: Place name from form
« on: Monday 06 March 23 08:57 GMT (UK)  »
Thank-you - I had not looked that far out, and had not tried a search with a y.

(I also have found an address for him at Wetmore Road, to further muddy the waters.)

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Staffordshire / Place name from form
« on: Monday 06 March 23 08:48 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone identify this place near Burton-on-Trent?  The man is currently living in Wiltshire but his Mother is next of kin.

Thanks

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Canada / Re: Houses in Owen Sound, Ontario
« on: Thursday 23 February 23 20:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Thanks for the links and information about the naming systems.


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Canada / Re: Houses in Owen Sound, Ontario
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 18:26 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, I agree about the other side of the street. 

However, if the street was built on both sides at about the same time, the 'older' ones look in fair condition, so I wondered why they would replace them in that row.

I have seen lots of new ones in England, but usually replaced because of war damage or were slums.  Later on individual ones get updated, particularly if in a 'good' area. That road looks wide and well planned from the start.

In reality, lots of factors at play.

Are old planning applications easily available to search, or not?

Thanks.

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Canada / Houses in Owen Sound, Ontario
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 13:48 GMT (UK)  »
I have a birth in 1910 at 567 13th Street West, Owen Sound, Ontario. (Family came over, son born, on census, return to England.)

The house looks modern.  It is part of a group of 8 terraced houses with garages at the front.  There are many numbers missing along the street - assuming evens on one side of road, and odds on the other.

Would a lot of replacement buildings have occurred here?

Apologies for my ignorance of Canadian urban renewal.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Edward Henry Greene de Freville, died 12.10.1901, buried at Weston-sub-Edge?
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 12:03 GMT (UK)  »
I hate looking up people with double-barrelled names, but he is there,



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New Zealand / Re: Inverness Av.,Mount Roskill, Auckland
« on: Wednesday 15 February 23 09:24 GMT (UK)  »
Thank-you for the link.

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New Zealand / Re: Inverness Av.,Mount Roskill, Auckland
« on: Wednesday 15 February 23 07:26 GMT (UK)  »
Thank-you for all the extra information, some of which I have.  I am still curious to know why the street was renamed but that name was not used on ER's.  I can find Invermay but was stubbornly still looking for an Inverness hiding somewhere.  I will stop that for now.  I do like street views because you can look to see how much the house has changed through the years, and also whether the same car is still in the drive - in some cases it has not moved in 10 years.
That travel information has the same birth date as his on 1939 register, so the correct man - Biddlecombe may be an unusual surname but there are a few around so it helps to make sure.

Just a related query - when I am looking for old streets in England I use an online 25" ordnance survey map of various years e.g. 1910 , 1941.  Quite a few streets disappeared in the war and during urban clearance.  Do any such maps exist for New Zealand?

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