WORKINGTON address - where? Help please

[buona]

On a 1906 Birth Certificate I have the place of birth as Wildbridge Brow, Workington.
On the 1911 Census I have ancestors at Martins Lane, Workington.  I have searched (and searched!) on the old maps website but cannot find either of these places.  My hubby has even tried to find them and can't.  Can anyone help me to locate them please?

Thanks,
buona

[Mrs Aky]

Hi Buona

Try Workington library, they might be able to help.

Catherine

[buona]

Hi Catherine,

Thanks for your reply. I'll email Workington Library.

buona

[bobgraham]

Hi buona, found martin's lane in 1883 and 1894 on historicaldirectories.org but it disappears by 1897. No sign of Wildbridge and too many "brows" to follow. If it had been aspatria (a), I would have attempted it but "w" was 180 hits in. Do you have any less common names of your ancestors that we can search. Smith or Graham would throw up too many hits. On Martins lane  there is a cow man and a Mrs Bell offering lodgings. bob

[buona]

Hi bob,

Been away from the computer for a while so sorry for the delay in responding.  Thank you for your reply and your efforts on my behalf.
My ancestors at 5 Martin’s Lane are Peter O’Neill (born abt 1868 Durham), his wife Margaret and children William, Bridget, Henry, Helen and Arthur.
They are at this address in 1901 Census and in 1911 Census.
An address search for this Lane on Find My Past shows 12 houses (nos 1-12) in Martin’s Lane in 1901 and in 1911 censuses.  (There is also a number 81/2).  The information says it is in St. Michael’s parish – I don’t really know where that is.
Hope this information might be of some help to you.
Thanks for mentioning historicdirectories.com  - new to me so will have a look.

Thanks again
buona

[bobgraham]

St. Michaels was the main parish church at the bottom end of town. Burnt down a few years by a vagrant keeping himself warm . One of the directories had road descriptions but I can't remember which one. Maybe if I get a minute I can find it when we were doing the Lanes. Anybody else remember?
bob

[danuslave]

Hi buona

In 1901 Martins Lane came under District 27 of Workington.  The District Description (on Anc***ry) reads as follows

Church Street from the Railway Inn on both sides up to William Street, including Church Lane and High Church Street, Sewell's Lane, Martin's Lane, Banks Lane, Banks Parade, Bell Street, and all the houses facing the Cloffocks from the West side of William Street to the Viaduct at the Railway Station, and all the houses at the West side of William Street up to and including the Royal Hotel

Hopefully you can find enough of these on historic or current maps to give you an idea of where the family was living  

Linda

[danuslave]

The Cloffocks seems to have covered at least

Pumping Station Cottage & Steam Laundry House

and can still be found on google maps

[bobgraham]

The Cloffocks are next to the football/greyhound stadium. There was controversy a while back as one of the supermarkets wanted to build on it. What the outcome was I've long since forgotten. bob