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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Greenwich Broad Street: poor or affluent?
« on: Friday 20 May 05 09:43 BST (UK) »
I'm glad it was useful. I guess to go back to your original question, I can tell you a bit about Brand St - I actually tlive there now!
It is a street of about 100 terraced houses mostly built around 1830. It has a pub at each end of the road. The houses are a moderate size and would probably have been built for lower middle class workers. Most houses are spred over 4 floors with two basement rooms downstairs (usually used as kitchen/dining room), 2 ground floor rooms, 2 upstairs bedrooms and 1 further attic room with sloping ceilings - we think this attic room was used by a domestic servant.
It is about 5 - 10 minutes walk from the centre of Greenwich. At the time, Greenwich would have been a very busy port town. In a sense Greenwich was the first Suburb in the world - the first railway in a big city was the London and Greenwich line which opened in 1836.
I found your post while I was trying to find the history of who lived in our house in the 1800s. Unfortunately all of the house numbers changed in the early 1900s so I can't pin down precise addresses, but it was interesting to follow Frank Delmar/van Toll as an example of someone who lived on the street.
Here's a link to a map showing the street today
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=538174&y=177123&z=1&sv=Brand+Street&st=6&tl=Brand+Street,+London,+SE10&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf
It is a street of about 100 terraced houses mostly built around 1830. It has a pub at each end of the road. The houses are a moderate size and would probably have been built for lower middle class workers. Most houses are spred over 4 floors with two basement rooms downstairs (usually used as kitchen/dining room), 2 ground floor rooms, 2 upstairs bedrooms and 1 further attic room with sloping ceilings - we think this attic room was used by a domestic servant.
It is about 5 - 10 minutes walk from the centre of Greenwich. At the time, Greenwich would have been a very busy port town. In a sense Greenwich was the first Suburb in the world - the first railway in a big city was the London and Greenwich line which opened in 1836.
I found your post while I was trying to find the history of who lived in our house in the 1800s. Unfortunately all of the house numbers changed in the early 1900s so I can't pin down precise addresses, but it was interesting to follow Frank Delmar/van Toll as an example of someone who lived on the street.
Here's a link to a map showing the street today
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=538174&y=177123&z=1&sv=Brand+Street&st=6&tl=Brand+Street,+London,+SE10&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf