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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Nottinghamshire => Topic started by: Pelican on Tuesday 24 June 25 12:07 BST (UK)
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My grandparents first home after they got married in 1900 was 3 Forster Ave, Nottingham.
I cannot seem to find it on modern maps and it may have disappeared like so many places in the Blitz.
The maps tell me however there is a Forster Street. Are Forster Ave and Forster one and the same please?
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A 1908 Nottingham newspaper advert has the address "Forster Avenue, Forster Street, Radford"
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In 1939 it is recorded as a short run of addresses between 105 and 107 Forster Street.
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Labelled here on the 1964 large scale map.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/210787524#zoom=4.8&lat=7772&lon=5391&layers=BT
Added: looking on street view, that part of Forster Street has been redeveloped.
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The 1901 Census reads
"105 Forster Street, 1 - 6 Forster Avenue, 107 Forster Street ..."
1901 map Forster Rd
https://maps.nls.uk/view/115392368#zoom=5.7&lat=6202&lon=10076&layers=BT
Yet to establish where 105 and 107 is! Avenue not identfied.
AB - just about to post!
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29 September 1976: Nottingham Evening Post
The houses in Forster Avenue are listed within a very large compulsory purchase as part of a clearance order.
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Historical Directories
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/165769/rec/13
Between Clapham St and Norwood Road.
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Thank you everyone. That was an interesting read, explains too why the other places where Grandad lived have also disappeared!! I have been walking around Nottingham on Google maps and in most streets I was interested in the houses look too modern for the late 1800's and the early 1900's even if the street name remained the same. In some cases like Forster Ave the street disappeared too. That map makes it very clear where it was, great.
By the way, it is a pleasant occupation walking around places on Google maps!!!
Again my thanks to you all. Explains everything.
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I used to walk through that area daily during my time in Nottingham in the late 1960s. I can't remember Forster Avenue specifically, but all the streets in that area consisted of Coronation Street like terraces with little if anything by way of front gardens and front doors opening directly onto the pavement.
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You're welcome.
Am posting a "Side by Side" map view.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.0&lat=52.95852&lon=-1.17745&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld
I take Forster Ave to be the bottle shaped area to the left of the letter "o" in Forster. Two sets of 3 houses face each other. Forster Ave is recorded as 1-6 on Census and Directory.
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I know the sort you mean Chris, they were built in cities all over the country like that weren't they. Victorian I think in the main. Well Victoria did have a long reign!
The side by side map was useful Hanes.
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I always felt that I was stepping back in time in the Radford area and others like it. Denman Street, a bit below Forster Avenue on the 1964 map, was full of small shops which had probably served your ancestors. It was always busy, maybe because there were no supermarkets nearby. I once saw a rag-and-bone man with a handcart (no horse) and wondered what the protocol was if you saw something interesting -- presumably you pointed and said "How much?" I do hope Nottingham archives have photographs of the area before it was knocked down.
Something that intrigued me was that most of the streets above Denman Street (e.g. Croydon Road & Sydenham Street, and more to the north seen on the 1901 map) were named after places in SE London where I grew up and later returned to.
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They more than probably did serve my ancestors! Nice thought.
It was mostly little shops then apart from the department stores. Often they were in the house's front room like my grandmother's in Coventry in the 1920/30/40's and 50's. She had a little grocery store and it was very popular locally. Some were a bit bigger, like where my mother in law was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight at the turn of the 1900's. Some did survive into the 2000's like one in Leicester I know, but that family progressed to more modern products.
Those streets of little shops were far more intriguing than the supermarkets of today!!
Nottingham may not have photos unless they are from ordinary folk. Big pity that. It is more than likely that Nottingham Council would have bothered to take photos, they were clearance areas and they were more interested in the development like so many councils all over the country. There just might be Francis Frith ones.
I can remember seeing rag and bone men once or twice, but had nothing to do with them. When you think about it they did a good service, it all goes to landfill these days!
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Official photographs were often taken in connection with Clearance Orders, showing these places just before they disappeared. Some survive in the archives of borough councils, so it is worth asking the local Record Office/Archives Service.
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I did not realise that. Thank you MollyC.