Where was Bridge Street, Hull?

[alfindit]

Hi,

I have ancestors who lived in Bridge Street, Kingston upon Hull in the 1871 census and I cannot currently find the street on maps. The enumerator began at Dock Office Row then moved to Bridge Street, which seems quite long and included Jarvis Square. They then visited a property on Dock Street before moving on to Trippett Street and beyond.

I have found Dock Offices (yellow on map),Trippett Street (green), Dock Street (orange), and I have also found 'New Bridge Street', which i have marked in purple and which does not seem long enough to contain all the properties in the census. The name 'New Bridge Street' may suggest there was on original Bridge Street which changed its name; the main contender for this would be George Street which runs into Charlotte Street (both in blue) which then crosses over a body of water, i.e. over a bridge, from whence, I am thinking, it derived its old name.

Can anyone help me with this, please? Thanks very much for your time; as always, it is much appreciated,

Al

[ShaunJ]

It seems to have been renamed Charlotte Street

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=19.0&lat=53.74699&lon=-0.33132&layers=117746212&right=osm

[alfindit]

Thanks, ShaunJ. That was not a map I saw when searching, though I'm not sure why. Great find. Thanks again,
Al

[MollyC]

Your snip is from a six-inch map (1:10560) revised 1906-08; the 1888-1890 survey is similar.
The 1853 six-inch survey shows Bridge Street:  https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345028

Shaun's extract is from the large scale 1853 survey.
(1:1056 = 60 inches to the mile, often referred to as five-foot plans, which the NLS places in the group "Town Plans".)

[Rena]

Hull University have quite a lot of local photos and documents:-

"Bridge Street,
Reference No:
U DX336/10/7
Dates:
c.1920s
Description:
Taken from the road showing houses in both sides of the street. Original photograph numbered: 45.7
Format:
Archive Item""

https://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/catalogue/U-DX336-10-7

[AlanBoyd]

That date of c1920s is odd, because Bridge Street appears on the 1892 map, but is no longer labelled on the 1906/1908 map, having been subsumed into Charlotte Street.

Also Findmypast address search in census records for Hull:
(limiting to Holy Trinity, later Holy Trinity & St Mary)
Bridge Street yields results from 1841 until 1891
Charlotte Street yields results from  1901 onwards
(Since Charlotte Street existed on maps before 1891 this is a little strange, but perhaps the original western section of Charlotte Street had no residents for census purposes.)

The address search revealed another Bridge Street in Sculcoates – could this be the source of the image?

[alfindit]

Hi
Thanks everyone for your time and effort regarding Bridge Street. I too have found it on newer maps when older ones had changed it to Charlotte Street. I found a map where North Street had been absorbed by Charlotte Street, but not Bridge Street, so it appears to have been done in phases. I suppose that once the bridge had gone, the name no longer seemed relevant, but it appears as Charlotte Street on one map I found on which the bridge is still standing.

Thanks again,
Al