Fawdry's Buildings

[Ruskie]

Norton Street, Goode Street (on right and left edges of this map) and Soho Wharf (centre of map) are mentioned in the enumerator’s description in the 1851 census:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.607770302466246&lat=52.49473&lon=-1.92373&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld

Presumably Fawdry’s Buildings will be one of those visible on Soho Road (possibly the southern side?).

You can zoom in and out and scroll around the map. There are likely to be earlier maps showing more detail.

There are many other addresses in the area - Something “Buildings”

[Ruskie]

Soho Park, as mentioned in Maddy’s reply #4 can be seen on this map (towards the top right - look for blue coloured pond):
https://maps.nls.uk/view/101597708

I’m not sure how it works for Fawdry’s Buildings to be both opposite the Park as well as on Soho Road.

[Clarxpi]

I've seen the enumerator's description mentioned before. Where do you find it? If it helps, I use Ancestry.

Thanks!

[Ruskie]

I've seen the enumerator's description mentioned before. Where do you find it? If it helps, I use Ancestry.

Thanks!

Page one of the census book.

[Clarxpi]

Thanks, Russkie, I shall have a look 

[Ruskie]

It’s not very enlightening.    Sometimes you get more from physically going address by address through the whole book. I did some of that but apart from the three locations mentioned in the enumerator’s description (already mentioned and found on the map), I drew a blank. Lots of “X Buildings” but none marked on the maps.

[Clarxpi]

I was tempted to think of Fawdry's Buildings as being a tenement or court, but where I used to live, there were short rows of houses referred to as 'X Buildings'. They were mostly of early to mid-C19th build so may have been the fashion then?

[Ruskie]

I think the term can probably mean either. If the description given in the newspaper article is of “Fawdry’s Buildings” which it seems to be, then it mentions houses with gardens.

Looking at the maps, you can get an idea about the size of houses and other buildings.

Some wealthy people built houses to rent and it seems that in that area they had a preference for naming them after themselves. In some areas housing was supplied by employers for workers near to their place of employment.

[Clarxpi]

Yes  it looks like a row, doesn't it?