George Lunn (1837 - 1895) a printermy 2nd great grand unclelived at 15 Mauds Terrace on the 1871 census.
I was extremely interested to read in the Echo recently about people's memories of the houses between Spring Hill and Michaelgate, in Lincoln. There were three terraces of houses, Prospect Terrace, Maud's Hill Terrace and St Michael's Terrace and my grandfather lived in one of these houses. It was the end house of Maud's Hill Terrace, the middle of the three. There were two rooms downstairs, a living room and then a room at the back, built into the hillside, which had a gas cooker in it and was also the coalhouse, the coal having to be delivered by the coalman through the living room. Upstairs, there was only one bed-room, with a very small window. There was no electricity in the house, only gas, but not upstairs. Lighting was by gas, with a candle having to be used in the bedroom. Cooking was done on the gas cooker and also on the fire in the living room, which was the old fashioned grate, with side oven attached and water heater. There was a supply of cold water in the house, in the cupboard under the stairs, but there was no drain, so a bucket had to be kept permanently under the tap to catch any drips. The toilet was outside, down a passage and was really in the next terrace. This was shared by two houses, the second toilet being shared by three other houses on St Michael's Terrace. There was only one good point in favour of this house. The view overlooking the centre and south of Lincoln was marvellous. My grandfather was re-housed in the late 1950s and all of the properties were then demolished. Today, the area has been rebuilt and some properties in the area have been names Stanthaket Court, a reminder of the church • which once stood in that area, "Stanthaket" meaning "stone-thatched". It had a stone roof at a time when many churches had thatched roofs.
