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"completed"find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« on: Wednesday 27 May 09 13:38 BST (UK) »
this photo is circa  1920 .  The house was then called Kelsie and is somewhere on Birchfields Road Longsight Manchester, help please to find the current house number so I can identify the property.

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 27 May 09 14:20 BST (UK) »
Hi 162megan & welcome to RootsChat.

I haven't been able to find anything online that identifies the house number relating to the name Kelsie. The latest directory on the Historical Directories site is the previous decade and has some names for houses on Birchfields Road, but not Kelsie. You could try a search using the surname & seeing if that identifies the number
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/

Otherwise you may need to use the collection of directories at Manchester's Central Library
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=448&documentID=460

There are more pictures on the Manchester Local Image collection at
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=448&documentID=326

There are recent pictures on Google's StreetView (use Birchfields Road Manchester in Google Maps & then select Streetview).

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 27 May 09 14:21 BST (UK) »
In looking around online, "Kelsie" was once the home of William Alfred PEARN, so perhaps you could cross reference with the censuses?

www.wikipatents.com/gb/185004.html
www.wikipatents.com/gb/160602.html

But perhaps you've already been down that road...

ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HOLMES: Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow/Knutsford
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GREY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAWE, FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 27 May 09 14:36 BST (UK) »
Trouble is, in the directories I've looked at, William A. PEARN, engineer, keeps  showing up at 5 Newton Terrace, off Newton Avenue, near Stockport Road - a little east of Birchfields....
ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HOLMES: Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow/Knutsford
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GREY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAWE, FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford


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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 May 09 14:41 BST (UK) »
thanks for all that - I have details of William Pearn and traced his  house on Newton Avenue - he lived there before he moved to Birchfields Road.
So far I can't identify it by looking at Birds Eye view or Google earth.

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 May 09 15:09 BST (UK) »
Perhaps you could post a query on the Lancashire board for a look-up in a later directory?
ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HOLMES: Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow/Knutsford
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GREY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAWE, FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 May 09 15:32 BST (UK) »
Or perhaps something could be found in the Electoral Registers...
ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HOLMES: Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow/Knutsford
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GREY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAWE, FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 28 May 09 18:15 BST (UK) »
how do I add this request to the Lancashire pages?

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Re: find house on Birchfields Road Manchester
« Reply #8 on: Friday 29 May 09 08:57 BST (UK) »
The house in that picture looks long-established.  From Google Street View, it looks like the houses were built in the 1930's or 1940's.  It's quite possible that the house isn't there any more.

RIP 1949-10th January 2013

Best Wishes,  Nick.

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