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Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« on: Wednesday 06 April 11 13:42 BST (UK) »
Hi,

I'd like to find out where Can Lane is or was in 1847 when John Harris was born there.  it doesn't seem to be on the modern maps.

Many thanks

Steve

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 April 11 13:48 BST (UK) »
Hi Steve,

According to Genuki Can Lane is a long street of houses, three quarters of a mile ENE of Sedgley.

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 07 April 11 09:25 BST (UK) »
Hi, My husband said that Can lane was by Queen
 Victoria
 schools thay made cans when he was a kid hope it helps it was a row off old house.dounce
Armstrong, shropshire ,dudley Carter,coseley, tipton sedgley Reynolds,shropshire, coseley. Clayton,shropshire,dudley. Cook, tipton. Waite,wiltshire,sedgley. norton canes

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - Victoria School
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 07 April 11 17:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks Cathmjp and Dounde and your husband! 

So Can Lane might have been somewhere around what is now called School Street.  My ancestor was there in 1847, 50 years before the school was built, so presumably it wasn't School St back then.  Maybe the school is on the site of the can factory???

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 07 April 11 17:54 BST (UK) »
Oops sorry Cathy that would make your husband 114 years old!!  So the can factory can't be under the 1897 building.
Steve

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 09 April 11 21:29 BST (UK) »
I have a Map showing Can Lane, Hurst Hill. (Present Day Hurst Road) Also the enumerator's discription in the 1851 census as Can Lane ending at the Ettingshall Road as Hurst Road does today.

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 10 April 11 18:43 BST (UK) »
Hi Jontry,

Many thanks for that.  I've been for a look along Hurst Road on Google maps, and I think the last remnants of the Can Lane of 1847 have long gone!  There is nothing there except two houses that seem to be the remains of a terrace, but they are probably only late victorian.  There is also the Methodist chapel which might be older but that doesn't give much of an impression of what the place it was like in 1847.  Still, it is probably much nicer now!

Steve

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 13 April 11 23:34 BST (UK) »
I have an 'extracted' record from IGI showing that my gt gt grandfather was baptised at 'Can Lane and Ettingshall Wesleyan Methodist Chapel' in 1818. I sent for an Alan Godfrey old map of the area, which clearly shows Can Lane, but was unable to pinpoint the Chapel. It was over to the East from Ettingshall Lane, which now appears to be Ettingshall Road. Must have a look at Google Maps, thanks for that.
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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Re: Can Lane Sedgley - where was it?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 14 April 11 11:57 BST (UK) »
Yes, put the little man on Hurst Road between Summerhouse Road and Hollywell St.

If you have your old map handy, could you tell me if Can Lane was the same length as current Hurst Road, or did it include what is now Gorge Road and Bilton St?

It looks as though the current building you can see is from 1860s (by Googling Hurst Hill Methodist Church) but it mentions the School Room survives (from a previous era?) and I wonder if that is the building behind, which could have been the original chapel?

Also your chapel to the East of Ettingshall Lane doesn't sound like this one (unless you meant West!?) so I think you are probably looking for the one on the corner of upper Ettingshall Road and Paul Road.  According to one site I found (http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/upperettingshall/) this shares some services with Hurst Hill / Can Lane so it seems to be linked, at least nowadays, maybe they always were; maybe people from Can Lane came up here before their own chapel was built in 1860.

I expect there is a history of Bilston churches out there somewhere.....
Steve
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