Vale Cottages Lower Walmer

[mazeppa]

I need more help please with Vale Cottages, North Barrack Road, Lower Walmer.

At some point in their history I understand they were re-numbered,  don't know how or when.

It makes sense to me that the first cottage on the left would be number one and so on.

 I have an 1898 street map which appears to show only 10 cottages,  the street directory for that year lists 1 - 11, but no number 3, so still only 10 cottages.

My people were there as follows;

1891......number 10

1898.....not shown in street directory list of names

1911......number 1

1932......number 10

I suppose they could have moved in and out of Vale Cottages over the years,
if I can find out how the cottages were, and are numbered I will at least know where to place them.

Hope someone is able to help.

Mazeppa

[mazeppa]

An added observation;

I note on the 1891 census that no's 3, 5 and 6 are all uninhabited.

As no number 3 is shown on 1898 street directory, I wonder if that cottage was  still uninhabited, seems strange when housing would have been sought after.

Mazeppa

[Bill749]

There is a picture of the cottages as they appear today on my website: http://www.eastkent.freeuk.com/walmer/nbarrack.htm

There are 4 cottages on the left and 6 on the right (viewed from North Barrack Road).  They are now numbered as part of North Barrack Road, so it would be necessary to consult a number of directories over a period of time to work out exactly how they were numbered.

If they were numbered in the modern fashion - odds on one side, evens on the other - then the right side would be 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and the left side 2, 4, 6, 8.

I will have to investigate next time I'm in the library.

Bill