Fry Road, Luton

[janan]

Does anyone know where Fry Road in Luton might have been. It doesn't appear to exist now and I can't find it on any old maps either so am a bit stumped.

For context
A 1913 workshouse record shows my grandmother Olive Carver and my great grandmother Hannah and gives my great aunt Annie under address of friends column thus

Daughter Miss A Carver 69 Fry Road (Husb^d an inmate)

Annie, according to family story, lived with her great aunt Frances Burrows at this time. However the Burrows' address in 1911 and on electoral roll from 1914 is Avondale Rd.

Thanks
Jan

[cuffie81]

Might Fry Road actually be Ivy Road? Avondale Road is near by and looks like it was created after Kenilworth Road stadium was created in 1905.

Ivy Road, Bury Park (modern map)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=avondale%20road%2C%20luton#map=17/51.88498/-0.42981

Ivy Road, Bury Park (old map)
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.88401&lon=-0.42931&layers=168&b=1

[cuffie81]

For what it's worth, the only newspaper reference I could find to 69 Ivy Road was the following. I couldn't find anything for Fry Road.

Luton Times and Advertiser
22 May 1903
page 4, column 4
Ivy Road, Dunstable Road, Luton
- 6 neat brick and slated freehold dwelling houses
- with outbuildings, gardens,
- &c, at rear and centre passages to road,
- situate Nos 59, 61, 63, 65, 76 and 69, Ivy Road, Luton
- producing £100 2s per annum, to be sold by auction by H Holyoak & Son
- at George Hotel, Luton, on Tues May 26th 1903

[janan]

Thank you cuffie, I think you've cracked it.
It still looks like Fry to me but the F doesn't look like the other capital Fs, can't find an I for comparison.

Thanks again
Jan

[cuffie81]

As an aside, have you seen the newspaper report in 1905 of Robert and Annie Carver, being charged with neglect of their children?

[janan]

Yes I've got several newspaper reports thanks and found the children in the workhouse whilst their parents were in prison. My poor Gran had a tough childhood.

[johnP-bedford]

At 69 Ivy Road, Luton is W Ansell in both 1911 & 1917 Luton Directories

A Burrows is at 8 Avondale Road   

[cuffie81]

There are some later newspaper references to Mr Ansell, at 69 Ivy Road, which I overlooked before.

Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle
02 Mar 1950
Gas Employee Loses A Leg
- William Thomas Ansell
- 67, labourer, of 69 Ivy Road, Luton
- had foot crushed by bulldozer while working in yard at Luton Gas Works

Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle
22 Jan 1953
£4,080 For Luton Man
Handed Cheque at T.U. Branch
- Mr W T Ansell
- of Ivy Road, Luton
- presented with cheque for £4,080
- money won by legal department
- payment for accident at Eastern Gas Board,
- in which Mr Ansell lost a leg below the knee

[cuffie81]

William Ansell's wife, Lois Elizabeth, looks to have been born in Lilley, Herts., the same place as Annie/Hannah Carver.

Might there be some connection?