Address format for Courts

[Stirrick]

Does anyone know how the address format works for courts ?

I have an address for Liverpool:
6 Court, Standish Street, 2 house.

What on earth does that mean ?

[ShaunJ]

Normal address format would be 2 House, 6 Court, Standish Street i.e house number 2 in court number 6.

[Stirrick]

Doh ! Simple as that.

Thank you.

And presumably a 'house' would be any building with its own front door ?
So a line of terraced houses, formed around a court, with each house being divided up into an indeterminate number of living spaces ?

[Andy J2022]

Stirrick, take a look at this article in the Liverpool Echo which talks about life in the old courts and has pictures of the one remaining court in Liverpool: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpools-court-housing-were-once-6433363

[MollyC]

See also this recent thread about courts in Liverpool:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=883427.0

[Stirrick]

Thanks, all - I knew what Courts were, but not really the detail.

Facinating read, Andy.

I always associate Courts, Yards and Back-to-Backs with the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Amazing to think that they were still around in the 1940's.

[MollyC]

There was a concerted effort to demolish them after the first world war.  Council housing was largely developed to replace them.  The loans which councils received were matched with the numbers being demolished.  This was still in progress when the second world war began and new building was halted.  It was re-started, but clearance orders for poor quality terraced housing were being issued until the late 1950s.

Re the Liverpool Echo article.  One thing that museums and drama productions never get right is that their buildings are too clean.  They were coated with decades of soot and industrial grime, virtually black.  Smokeless zones began with the Clean Air Act of 1956.  The cleaning of exteriors of public buildings did not begin until about 1970.