The 1959 map shows numbering. But zooming in is restricted.
You can see the numbers quite clearly on the 1/1250 map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/448320/205742/13/101329
stan
Thanks, Stan - but sadly this is the same as today, so gives no clues to 1939 Register, where Springfield Road is not mentioned and I am having to guess what number it might be in either Hurst Rise Road, or possibly Hurst Rise (both roads appear in the Register).
As it happens, both 2 Springfield Road and 15 Hurst Rise Road match exactly in design (which is a slightly unusual footprint) and were evidently built by the same builder in 1936/37, on a corner site.
Whether they were both originally numbered as Hurst Rise Road, or in different roads, seems to be impossible to determine.
I would be able to find out definitively, I assume, by consulting the Deeds which would show the first owners post construction, and possibly the original address, but these are currently held by the Building Society.
I'm a little surprised not to be able to find, despite the kind help here, when Springfield Road itself came into existence.
There must have been renaming activities carried out when the whole area was redeveloped, first in the 1930's and then - apparently - in the 1960's, when it looks as if Hutchcomb Road was extended up the hill (it is actually Cedar Road at the top, where it joins Lime Road).
However, I cannot as yet find any reference to the introduction of the new name, why it was chosen etc. Local roads reflect the farms and hills in the vicinity, as well as tree names (and also, in the Elms Rise development, the names of the builders).
No particular importance in pinning all this down - it is purely interest on my part to find out the first occupiers - but yet another example of how research can lead you into other interesting by-lines such as when your locality was built, how names were chosen, what numbers houses originally had and when they were altered, etc.
