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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (North Riding) => Topic started by: G Hearse on Sunday 22 March 20 17:01 GMT (UK)

Title: Grange Town
Post by: G Hearse on Sunday 22 March 20 17:01 GMT (UK)
I have ancestors from the Middlesbrough area, who show Grange Town as a birth place. Did this just morph into Grangetown over time
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: chempat on Sunday 22 March 20 18:47 GMT (UK)
Looks like it:

'In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Grangetown like this:

Grange Town, 2 miles from Southbank sta., North-Riding Yorkshire; P.O.'
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: BSIGGYME on Sunday 06 December 20 09:55 GMT (UK)
You can look up slaggy island on Middlesbrough's website Francis frith website or on pintrest good look
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: dawnkaren on Sunday 13 December 20 17:08 GMT (UK)
no its a mistake, its always been grangetown as in one word
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:10 GMT (UK)
Link to reference as 2 words :


Where is your evidence for always one word?

Sorry, incorrect link given as not working correctly.

Does this work?
https://bit.ly/380EHaz
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: BSIGGYME on Sunday 13 December 20 18:11 GMT (UK)
That's interesting to no many thanks for sharing it with us all
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: dawnkaren on Sunday 13 December 20 18:13 GMT (UK)
1888 map

 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15&lat=54.57676&lon=-1.15814&layers=171&right=BingHyb
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:15 GMT (UK)
That is one map in 1888, does not preclude it from different names over time.
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:18 GMT (UK)
Better explanation here:
https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25238/names
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: dawnkaren on Sunday 13 December 20 18:24 GMT (UK)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060109012606/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/cardboardcity/index.phtml


read down from biulding a new town on that
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:46 GMT (UK)
There are 9 instances of the use of Grange Town in that link, and 49 of Grangetown.
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: JenB on Sunday 13 December 20 18:46 GMT (UK)
Daily Exchange 1st November 1882

On Monday afternoon last our reporter had an interview with one of the firm who have contracted to build the new town of Grangetown, a place which for rapid growth is probably without equal.

http://northeasthistorytour.blogspot.com/2011/12/building-of-grangetown-1881-82-nz547210.html

Also see Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society http://ctlhs.co.uk/golden-jubilee/fifty-interesting-places/grangetown/
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: JenB on Sunday 13 December 20 19:01 GMT (UK)
Quote from: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:15 GMT (UK)
That is one map in 1888, does not preclude it from different names over time.

Maybe so, but looking at old newspaper reports around the time that it was first being built (1881), it seems that the given name was originally Grangetown.

Middlesbrough Daily Gazette, 14th April 1881
Title: Re: Grange Town
Post by: dawnkaren on Sunday 13 December 20 19:04 GMT (UK)
Quote from: JenB on Sunday 13 December 20 19:01 GMT (UK)
Quote from: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:15 GMT (UK)
That is one map in 1888, does not preclude it from different names over time.

Maybe so, but looking at old newspaper reports around the time that it was first being built (1881), it seems that the given name was originally Grangetown.

Middlesbrough Daily Gazette, 14th April 1881

thank you for putting that point across, everything i find from back then gives the correct spelling being grangetown