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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cheshire => Topic started by: Bellini on Friday 28 May 10 11:23 BST (UK)
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My great great grandparents both died at an address in Station Road, Monks Coppenhall which I am guessing was near to Crewe Station? I have searched Google Maps but haven't found anything likely. Can anyone local to the area help me please?
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Does this help?
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=okqb719b0mog9kn8r9rntr4823&topic=162486.0
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I've never heard of Station ROAD (despite living in Crewe all my life). Station STREET on the other hand was there. It ran from Mill St to the east, parallel and to the north of Herdman St, until it hit the railway land. (It didn't actually reach the station but finished level with the Loco Sheds). I reckon it ran immediately past the north end of what is now called Wesley Place.
Adrian
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Thanks Adrian. Went back to my original census details and you're right it was Station STREET. I assume no houses left there now?. They were at No 25.
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That's good that you confirmed it was the "Street". As for what's left, not only are there no houses, the street's been covered as a result of building work by grass and car parks etc.
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Thought so! Thanks for the info!
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I lived at no. 31 Station Street as a child!
It was knocked down in the late 60s.
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Thanks for confirmation, CreweGirl. My great grandfather William and his 2nd wife Mary Copeland both were living with Mary's daughter and her husband Elizabeth and Robert Scott at 25 Station Street in 1880s.
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Forbears of mine lived round the corner in Lockett Street at that time! Wonder if they knew each other?
I remember a lot about that area as I lived there until I was about 10, when the houses were knocked down.
Old maps, the ones that people often mention on here (forget the company name, sorry!) do show Station Street and all the surrounding area. I have the relevant one here somewhere.
That area was lovely for us kids to grow up in. Some of the houses were more up-to-date than others, though. While ours had a proper flushing lavvy (at the bottom of the garden, but you can't have everything!) some streets still had night soil collections.
We also had just one tap in the house, in the kitchen over the white Belfast sink, and no plug sockets. Some houses just had a 'slopstone'. I felt quite posh by comparison!
When my parents moved into the house in the early 50s it still had a full Victorian cast iron fire/cooking range, which was soon replaced by a more modern open grate. No back boiler though, so no hot water in the house.
The kitchen sink was a brown 'slopstone', which was a shallow brown sink set close to the floor. When Mother turned the tap on, water would splash out over the floor, if there was enough pressure, that is!
Often there wasn't as 31 was next to the end of the water pipe.
So your relatives, 3 doors down, would've had a walled garden with a backyard soil privy, one tap in the kitchen and a 'slopstone' and a cast iron kitchen range.
Two rooms and a small kitchen downstairs and three bedrooms, all separate, upstairs.
Sounds quaint to us but these were innovations at the time - internal plumbing, organised sanitary collections, adequate bedrooms... luxury!
The local infant/junior school was Pedley Street School. It still stands, entirely recognisable, complete with little bell tower, 10 minutes' walk from my old home in Station Street. It's now used as the Transport Police HQ.
When I went there in the '60s we used to sit on long two-level benches outside which I later realised were actually the old school desks. You can see the sort of thing in this link, scroll down to the 'Victorian school desk' photo -
http://www.bathpostalmuseum.org/explore/history/history_1800s2.html
Very much like that, but with no back and much longer, and placed against the wall so that we could sit on the two levels.
So, any kids from your family would DEFINITELY have used those desks, which I sat on decades later!
Happy days!