The community of Waterloo...
It's address ( not necessarily a postal address, but a formal way of prescribing where a place lay, based on ecclesiastical administration)
Waterloo. (in the Township of
Cowpen, (in the Parish of
Horton, ( in the county
Northumberland.
And Middleton Street built some time before 1897 would have had a similar address.
Address for Bridge Street, Blyth would have been...
Bridge Street, (in the community of
Blyth, (in the Township of
South Blyth & Newsham ( in the Parish of
Earsdon, (in the county of
Northumberland.
However in 1907 the neighbouring Urban Districts of Blyth (4000 pop) and Cowpen (12000 pop) merged .The new combined area was called BLYTH.
So after 1907..
Middleton Street
Waterloo
Blyth
Northumberland... then eventually the Waterloo bit would have been dropped
Trivia Angle.
Mail to Blyth area..
" About sixty years* ago it was arranged for letters to come by Shields, three times a week, by a riding postman. When he arrived he sounded his horn as he came up the street ; he then ascended the mount at the Star and Garter door and then read over the names of the parties to whom the letters were addresses.
There were commonly a considerable number of people collected: a few were expecting letters, and a number of gossips who having little business of their own to attend to, spent their leisure attending to the business of their neighbours.
These were the special dread of young females who were expecting letters from their lovers; but it was understood that those young ladies managed to outwit the gossips , by bribing the postman to omit announcing their letters. "
Extract from "The History of Blyth" by John Wallace, 1869*
Michael
