RootsChat.Com
England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Kent Lookup Requests => Kent => England => Kent Completed Lookup Requests => Topic started by: scintilla on Wednesday 29 April 09 15:20 BST (UK)
-
I've found my great grandparents living at Dickens Terrace, Wainscott in the 1911 census. This road doesn't seem to exist now. I have found a reference to it during the second world war (there was a famous murder of a young mother who had been visiting her parents who lived there in 1943). Does anyone have memories of this street, or a map from this time? I know the Wainscott area (I went to the primary school there - 1960's) but I don't have any recollection of it.
One thing I'm trying to double check is an address on a medal card for one of my great uncles. I'm 99% sure this is the right card, but the correspondence address is Dickens Street, Wainscott and I want to check that this is an error and there wasn't a Dickens Street in Wainscott.
-
Scintilla
I have a Kelly's Directory of 1951 for this area and Dickens Terrace IS listed under the Rochester street directory section (with no more information) but it just says "See Wainscott". I can't find this reference in the book at the moment but this probably means that the street was there in 1951 but maybe wasn't when you were at school in the 1960's. I have just looked at a current map and it is definitely not listed now - unfortunately the map which came with the 1951 directory is missing.
Anyway this might help to confirm that it was at least there in 1951 so must have been before then. If I find anything more I will post again.
Honeybun
-
Scintilla
Have found the listing for Dickens Terrace so if you want to check name/address let me know.
Regards
Honeybun
-
Hello Honeybun
Thanks for your reply. I checked the 1901 census and it doesn't look like Dickens Terrace was built then, so it must have been built between 1901 and 1911. Someone looked at the 1913 Kelly's for me and found 2 shops in the terrace. I think from what I remember of the village and the shops there, that the terrace may have become part of Wainscott Road.
It's a great shame that the directory map is missing.
Merv
-
Hello Honeybun
Thanks for your reply. I checked the 1901 census and it doesn't look like Dickens Terrace was built then, so it must have been built between 1901 and 1911. Someone looked at the 1913 Kelly's for me and found 2 shops in the terrace. I think from what I remember of the village and the shops there, that the terrace may have become part of Wainscott Road.
It's a great shame that the directory map is missing.
Merv
-
hi, just joined , and saw your talking about wainscott, well i was bourn in wainscott , as was my father, and im sure he would know where dickens terrace was , i think it may have been wainscott road ..
-
Hello kimellen, thanks for your reply. I must apologise for not marking this thread complete. I managed to get to Wainscott and did indeed establish that Dickens Terrace is now part of Wainscott Road. There is still a name plaque on one of the houses there - opposite the bottom of Frittenden Road where Gill Avenue meets Wainscott Road.
-
thats ok , if i can help i will try , what is your relatives surname ? mine is gorham ,
-
I Also went to wainscot school , i was born i 1959, and mr belson, was headmaster, my brother was 4 years older than me, he also went that school ,
-
Dickens Terrace was incorporated into or renamed Wainscott road in the 1950's. As far as I know what was Dicken's Terrace stretched from the School towards Frindsbury. My grandparents lived at 27 next to the shop that was known as Martins, was renamed Kendals and has now gone. 27 is now 109 Wainscott Road.
Hope this helps.
-
Hello Flying Toad
Thanks for that. My great grandparents lived at No. 22 and one of my great uncles lived a No. 31 for a while. I wonder given that you say that No. 27 is now 109 Wainscott Road if I can work out what the current numbers for No.'s 22 and 31 are.
scintilla
-
Scintilla,
According to my mother we had relatives at 31 Dickens (Arnold) from 1923 to 1961 and that was renumbered 101 Wainscott Road.
Regards
FlyingToad
-
Hello Flying Toad
Thanks for that, much appreciated. That ties in with the dates I have for my great uncle living at No. 31. He gave that address when his children were baptised at Frindsbury church in 1918 and 1921, so when he moved out your relatives moved in. If the numbering is a straight forward relationship them from what you have given me I think No. 22 would now be No. 119 Wainscott Road. My great grandparents would have overlapped with your relatives because they moved out when my great grandfather died in 1938 (their name was King).
scintilla
-
Hi,
No problem, 27 were the Harris family, my mother moving out in the 1950's on marriage and her parents staying until their deaths in the 1960's. The Arnolds at 31 were the in-laws and likewise remained til they died. Oddly enough just last week I was in conversation with a chap from work who I lift share with; we work in different departments, live 16 miles apart and were introduced by a third party; it transpires that his mother is about a year younger than mine, grew up in Higham Road, Wainscott and they knew each other as small girls. Small world.
FlyingToad
-
Hi, I dunno if I am replying properly here, but I lived opposite Dickens Terrace in Wainscott in the 50s/60s. Mr and Mrs Cobley lived in Dickens Terrace with my friend Ronnie Cobley and at least two sisters.
-
I lived in Frittenden Road opposite Dickens Terrace. I lived opposite the Cobley family including my pal the late Ronnie Cobley. Boy, we had some fun together growing up in Wainscott.