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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Middlesbrough - Eston area
« on: Friday 04 September 15 00:03 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Roobarb on Sunday 13 March 11 23:18 GMT (UK)
Hi and welcome to Rootschat  :)

How amazing that you've replied over 4 years later - just shows the power of Rootschat!

Unfortunately your ancestors were not the same as mine, my family's name was Lickess. They lived there to my knowledge in 1923 and 1929, I don't know exactly when they first moved there but it was between 1920 and 1923. I checked the previous censuses to see if it was a family member who lived there and was interested to see that it was a Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths. Very apt in our search for ancestors! Sadly I don't think we have any connection.

Good luck with your research.  :)

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Middlesbrough - Eston area
« on: Tuesday 04 December 12 10:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again! If your mum was VERA WILKINSON, (and lived at number 121??), then there is no problem. She lived at the house on the California side of the hospital site - later it became a DIY-type shop.
If that is the case,I will have to somehow get your emailaddress and tell you a few stories! Regards Ron Kerrison.

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Middlesbrough - Eston area
« on: Tuesday 04 December 12 10:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again! If your mum was VERA WILKINSON, (and lived at number 121??), then there is no problem. She lived at the house on the California side of the hospital site - later it became a DIY-type shop.
If that is the case,I will have to somejhow get your emailaddress and tell you a few storiesBesrt Regards Ron Kerrison.

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Middlesbrough - Eston area
« on: Monday 03 December 12 23:16 GMT (UK)  »
Re 121 High Street Eston.
Bulmer's 1890 Directory for Eston has a list of Trades there, some with addresses.
    Your photograph shows  part of the High Street before the construction of The Square as an "island" for buses, toilets etc. You can see the wall behind the man on the right, which extended to the Institute and was without buildings.
     On the extreme left was OSBORNE'S DARPER'S SHOP which was no 69 in 1890. Though the shopowners'names changed over the years, the trade carried out often did not. Being an Eston lad, born in the 1930s, I think that I can identify the following by continuing LEFT around the back of the photographer who took your shot - i.e. towards Gladstone, West , William Streets, past the hospital site to California WHERE PROSPECT TERRACE IS SITUATED:
(Bracketed names apply to the 1930s-1940s)
OSBORNE 69
BUTCHER 71(There is stilla butcher next door)
CONFECTIONER 75 (was Maggie Norman's)
STATIONER 93 (was Patterson's or Pengilly's)
POSTMASTER 105(COMPLETELY SURE OF THIS ONE) (was Stoddart's)
in other words we are heading for your no 121 probably between the hospital site and the bottom of California Bank and PROSPECT TERRACE
( Prospect Terrace contained the homes of the peers of Eston society!)
With a little more time I might be able to pinpoint no 121.
 Best Wishes, Ron Kerrison.



 

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