Hodgsons Court. Egremont. Completed - Thanks GeoffE

[*Sandra*]

Hi,

Probably one for Geoff-E - could anyone link me to an old map showing :- Hodgsons Court. Egremont.
Believe it was off the Main Street, possibly around Wyndham.

Have heard mention that there were some stables there at one time but not sure when that might have been - think Hodgsons Court was there around 1906.

Thanks
Sandra 

[Geoff-E]

No map at the moment

1911 census puts it between 34 and 35 Main St

Here http://tinyurl.com/m3wgffy

Best guess http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=301035,510710

Look at the 1899 1:2500 map ...
on Main St you will see "Old Hall" (some way south of Town Hall)
behind the Main St buildings on the right is a line of houses, 6 of them.

The bad news - there ought to be 7 in Hodgson's Ct. 

[*Sandra*]

Hi Geoff,

Thank you. It was No 6 that I was interested in 

Have a feeling there were 2 Hodgsons newsagents in the town at one time, maybe these houses had something to do with them.
The shop to the right of the blue one (34 Main Street) with café marked on the windows could have been one of those newsagents called Hodgsons at one time.

Sandra

Added :- One of the newsagents was Leece and Hocking not Hodgsons 

[*Sandra*]

Discovering Egremont by E A Read -

No 36 and 35 were cottages with an outside stone stairway in 1884 leading to a garret room above a narrow passage adjacent to number 33 providing entrance to another of the town's
courts, this one being "Hodgsons Court" - (or as it was known locally "Hodgins Court") -  5 small cottages with rentals of 4 shillings and ninepence per week. Built with the monies received from the Wyndham Mining Company, as royalties by a Miss Hodgson who later retired to live in Barrow-in-Furness.  The Wyndham Mine drift that ran directly below these cottages was known by the miners as "Barbers Drift".  Apparently one of the occupants of a cottage in the Court,  used to knock on the roof of the drift with his hammer, as a signal to his wife to get the water in his bath and make his dinner ready, he would be home within a few minutes.

Sandra

A Garret Room :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garret