RootsChat.Com

England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: kellogs on Friday 21 October 22 10:10 BST (UK)

Title: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: kellogs on Friday 21 October 22 10:10 BST (UK)

Hi all :)

Hopefully a quick one. Found this in the 1851 Census for Bethnal Green. Pretty sure it says North Pavement, but does anyone know where it was/is?

Title: Re: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 21 October 22 10:12 BST (UK)

Read the description at the front of the enumerated section, and also " walk" the addresses on an old map.

Pauline

Title: Re: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 21 October 22 10:47 BST (UK)

".........the North Pavement, Smart-street, near the Angel and Crown, Globe-fields, Bethnal-green"

(1820's newspaper ads)

So it was somewhere near the junction of Smart Street and what was then Green Street (now Roman Road). The Angel & Crown is on that corner.

This map of that area is from the 1870's by which time North Pavement seems to have disappeared:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/103313003#zoom=7&lat=5755&lon=5562&layers=BT

Title: Re: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: Fisherman on Friday 21 October 22 11:26 BST (UK)

Someone back in 2006 posted on the British Genealogy forum the question as to the whwereabouts of North Pavement.

https://www.british-genealogy.com/forum/threads/16533-North-Pavement-Bethnal-Green

Along with the reply from ShaunJ you might get a better idea as to its location

Title: Re: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: kellogs on Friday 21 October 22 14:21 BST (UK)

Thanks all, that's brilliant! ;D

Title: Re: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 21 October 22 17:00 BST (UK)

Aha, another mention in the press in 1826 with a more detailed address:

A Freehold Plot of Ground, eligibly situated on the North Pavement, North-street, Smart- Street, Globe -fields, Bethnal-green

North Street ran between Smart Street and West Street and eventually became part of East Street. You can see it on these old maps, left of Regents Canal and just above Victoria Park cemetery:

1853: http://www.mernick.org.uk/elhs/maps/bg1853.htm
1844: http://www.mernick.org.uk/elhs/maps/bg1844.htm
1854: http://www.mernick.org.uk/elhs/maps/bg1864.htm

Title: Re: Where is North Pavement?
Post by: kellogs on Saturday 22 October 22 14:59 BST (UK)

Thanks again for that ShaunJ, and for bringing to my attention the existence of those lovely maps!