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Title: Tottenham old street name
Post by: benitachell on Saturday 25 April 09 14:07 BST (UK)
Does anyone know what happened to Wingmore Road, Tottenham? Has it be renamed or buried under a new development ?
Have found relatives living there on the 1901 & 1911 census.
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: charlotteCH on Saturday 25 April 09 14:11 BST (UK)
benitchell, is it Wingmore Rd or could it be Wigmore Rd? 

charlotte
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: nanny jan on Saturday 25 April 09 15:55 BST (UK)
Hi,

I have a pre-decimal copy (5/- ) of A-Z and Wingmore Rd is shown;  not far from White Hart Lane station and Tottenham Cemetery.

It's gone from my more modern copy; it was between Beaufoy Rd and Tenterden Rd.

Nanny Jan
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: charlotteCH on Sunday 26 April 09 02:24 BST (UK)
Nanny Jan, Lucky you... did you buy that second hand or inherit it? 

I read the biography of the woman who put the A-Z together- amazing stuff..

charlotte
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: nanny jan on Sunday 26 April 09 10:09 BST (UK)
Hi,

My pre-decimal A-Z came from Freecycle!  I have just bought a facsimile of the first A-Z; it's very useful because it has a list of streets that had their names changed.  Also has a list of parking places!  ;D


Nanny Jan
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: Balkan64 on Saturday 15 December 12 19:47 GMT (UK)
Comparing an on-line street map of the area from 1940, it is clear that the present Tebworth Road used to be the southern half of Wingmore Road.  The original Wingmore Road used to continue northwards beyond the present dead end of Tebworth, past what is now Gretton Road and it then went straight on following, more or less, the course of the present passageway that runs between the houses as far as Beaufroy Road. The maps are made available by Maps-of-London.com with permission of Collins Batholomew.  WW2 bombing maps show that during the Blitz, four bombs fell in this small area.  This may explain why there has been so much rearrangement of the street layout.  I have not been able to find out whether and V1s or V2s fell here later in the war.
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: -Glen- on Wednesday 13 November 24 13:10 GMT (UK)
How interesting! I've just come across Wingmore Road, Tottenham on my ancestor's marriage record from 1899  :)
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: AlanBoyd on Wednesday 13 November 24 13:49 GMT (UK)
Here’s a side-by-side map view to clarify.

 https://tinyurl.com/6fax8hcj (https://tinyurl.com/6fax8hcj)
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: manukarik on Wednesday 13 November 24 15:29 GMT (UK)
I usually check this:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01thq/ (http://www.rootschat.com/links/01thq/)

but could see no mention of Wingmore Road.
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: -Glen- on Wednesday 13 November 24 18:49 GMT (UK)
Thanks for the replies.

I love the side-by-side maps view! That will come in handy, thanks  :)
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: AlanBoyd on Wednesday 13 November 24 18:53 GMT (UK)
Quote from: manukarik on Wednesday 13 November 24 15:29 GMT (UK)
I usually check this:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01thq/ (http://www.rootschat.com/links/01thq/)

but could see no mention of Wingmore Road.

I think that is because it’s name wasn’t changed, rather it ceased to exist.
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: manukarik on Wednesday 13 November 24 23:01 GMT (UK)
Ah AlanBoyd, that explains it! Duh!
Title: Re: Tottenham old street name
Post by: AlanBoyd on Thursday 14 November 24 07:36 GMT (UK)
I have become a little obsessed with the fate of Wingmore Road.

1) wrt reply #5, looking at the bombing map at bombsight.org which covers the Blitz, no bombs are recorded for the precise area, although there are three just south of Gretton Road

2) There are newspaper items from 1954 and 1964 which refer to Wingmore Road, Tottenham (caution: there is another Wingmore Road, Herne Hill SE24).

3) Wingmore Road appears on this OS map surveyed 1953, revised 1963.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/144884512#zoom=4.3&lat=3589&lon=1304&layers=BT (https://maps.nls.uk/view/144884512#zoom=4.3&lat=3589&lon=1304&layers=BT)

Thus, it seems that Wingmore Road did survive the war, and was still there in the early sixties.