What is the address in 1925 please

[Westy11]

The attached is a clipping of the address of Edward Clibborn that states "of Birchover, 175 Hill (?) Lane in the county of Southampton."

Q:
Is Birchover the probable name of the house or is it something else and if so what?
Is the address Hill or Shill Lane?

Westy

[Ruskie]

There is a Hill Lane in Southampton. You can find it on google maps.

I would think that Birchover is the name of the house ( or building).

Numbering may have changed over the years. 175 today is near the corner of Kellett Road, opposite the Cemetery Lake.

[cath151]

Small piece in a local newspaper about a suitcase being stolen in 1921 gives an E . Clibborn, Hill Lane.
Cathy

[[Ray]]

If Hill Lane hasn't been re-numbered, the houses around this point look about the right age . . . .

Post code of SO15 7UA

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h0i/ (Use the streetview option and "wander" using the controls)

(169 is the Driver Agency)

Don't forget that Ruskie has given a pointer as well

Ray

[Westy11]

Thanks to Ruskie, Cathy and Ray.

As a matter of interest, what is a Reception Room?

Westy

[[Ray]]

"Reception Room" ? 

I had to think hard about why you were asking, then it fell into place.
(The link I had given was a map link from one of the online "estate agents")

In UK you basically sell/buy a house . . . . .
(say) 3x bedrooms, 2x bathrooms, 1xkitchen/diner, 2x reception rooms, Butler's Quarters
The reception room(s) = Lounge/sitting room/study/library[ ]/ etc
Abbreviations 3xbed, 2xrec, 2xbath, 1xcloak, 2xkit . . . . .

Ray
 

[bearkat]

Southampton street directories are online

In 1925 Josephine CLIBBORN is listed as living at 175 Hill Lane

http://www.plimsoll.org/images/1925resb_tcm4-165105.pdf

[[Ray]]

Josephine the daughter?

Deaths 1925 QJun . . . . .
Soton 2c 18
Edward Clibborn (83y)
Soton 2c 74
Mary Cash Clibborn (77y) (mn Shewell)
Marriage 1870 QJun Darlington 10a 69

Ray

[Ruskie]

Westy, a 'reception room' is (more or less) a lounge room.  (a room you can use for entertaining or receiving guests)

The more reception rooms a house has generally the larger, posher and more expensive it is.