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Lancashire / Re: 123 Cresent Rd, Crumpsall 1843
« on: Sunday 12 February 12 18:20 GMT (UK) »
Hi Mancsman, thanks for the post. Just wanted to say I had been to Crescent Road searching for l23
as this address was on my grandfathers death cert. As you turn into the road on the left is where l23 (the building referred to on the cert.once stood). I checked all the numbers on the road and this is the site where l23 stood. A catholic church now stands on the site. I do not know when this was built but I did ask one or two people living there about the previous building that was there, but obviously they were fairly new to the area. On my grandfather's death cert. (dated 13th May 1943 it just gives the cause of death and the address as 123 Crescent Road Crumpsall, and as I mentioned because he lived at Vernon Street Gorton, I had to investigate why this was where he died. I first thought he might have been visiting a friend in Crumpsall and died there (that was before I was shocked to learn of the poorhouse/workhouse ethic. He was a retired plumbing engineer and also a lay-preacher in the church so I am still in the dark about the origins of his placement there.
as this address was on my grandfathers death cert. As you turn into the road on the left is where l23 (the building referred to on the cert.once stood). I checked all the numbers on the road and this is the site where l23 stood. A catholic church now stands on the site. I do not know when this was built but I did ask one or two people living there about the previous building that was there, but obviously they were fairly new to the area. On my grandfather's death cert. (dated 13th May 1943 it just gives the cause of death and the address as 123 Crescent Road Crumpsall, and as I mentioned because he lived at Vernon Street Gorton, I had to investigate why this was where he died. I first thought he might have been visiting a friend in Crumpsall and died there (that was before I was shocked to learn of the poorhouse/workhouse ethic. He was a retired plumbing engineer and also a lay-preacher in the church so I am still in the dark about the origins of his placement there.