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Buckingham Place
« on: Sunday 24 March 19 22:03 GMT (UK) »
Hello

Could someone help locate Buckingham Place in London? It is the address given on an 1842 birth cert. Father was in the Horse Guards, so it may be near Buckingham Palace.

Thanks for any help.

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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 24 March 19 22:55 GMT (UK) »
Which Buckingham Place? There are 6 in the 1851 London census. What was the registration district?
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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 24 March 19 23:03 GMT (UK) »
Sorry.

it was the North East district of St Luke Chelsea.

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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #3 on: Monday 25 March 19 07:05 GMT (UK) »
Would that be in SW1?

If so, it was renamed Buckingham Street some time between 1929 and 1945.

See:  https://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/Streets/New_to_Old_London_Street_Name_Changes.htm
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)


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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #4 on: Monday 25 March 19 07:28 GMT (UK) »
Hello - thank you very much. That list is a great resource. I suppose it is just a question of whether that is the Buckingham Place intended by the birth cert, given Shaun’s comment there were six different n 1851.

I don’t know London well so am not sure about postcodes or districts. A quick google suggests Chelsea is SW3 and SW10.

On modern maps it looks as if a possible Buckingham St (ex Place) is not far from the Strand?

Thanks again.

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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #5 on: Monday 25 March 19 08:38 GMT (UK) »
Per my 1856 PO Directory, Buckingham Place in Chelsea was a stretch of the north side of Marlborough Road, between James Street and Green Street.

Marlborough Road is now Draycott Avenue.
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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #6 on: Monday 25 March 19 08:45 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Shaun, will hunt it down

Your help is much appreciated.

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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #7 on: Monday 25 March 19 08:51 GMT (UK) »
Walking through the 1851 census, Buckingham Place is surrounded by Orford Place, Wood Street, Cadogan Street and Marlborough Road so I reckon this area
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Re: Buckingham Place
« Reply #8 on: Monday 25 March 19 09:03 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Cristeen, most helpful.

I see a smithy and a sawmill not too far away - a far cry from the same area in 2019, but reassures me that my family (in humble circumstances) could have lived there.