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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Greenwich Broad Street: poor or affluent?
« on: Tuesday 05 July 05 23:27 BST (UK) »
If it is Brand Street you're really after, I wouldn't particularly call it affluent - at least from 1918 to the 1970's. My grandmother and grandfather Poynter moved into Number 21 around 1918-1919. My mother was born there in 1920. They actually rented that place until my grandmother died in the 1980's. My great grandfather Poynter lived at the "top end" of Brand Street.
They were not affluent by any means. But then again, this was not a run-down dump of a street either. Houses were relatively clean and tidy inside and the steps up to the front door were scrubbed and whitewashed regularly.
There was a laundry opposite #21, which took in washing - mainly from the 'big' houses up on Blackheath, I'm told. Several shops were at the "bottom end" across from the Morden Arms. A newsagents in particular I remember because I often had to run there for my grandad's tobacco, and a leather goods shop which was owned by some Germans who had to move out when WW2 began. In fact I briefly made contact with a lady now living in Australia who was related to that family. If she sees this perhaps she could add more.
Brian Thornett
Crabapple, Georgia.
They were not affluent by any means. But then again, this was not a run-down dump of a street either. Houses were relatively clean and tidy inside and the steps up to the front door were scrubbed and whitewashed regularly.
There was a laundry opposite #21, which took in washing - mainly from the 'big' houses up on Blackheath, I'm told. Several shops were at the "bottom end" across from the Morden Arms. A newsagents in particular I remember because I often had to run there for my grandad's tobacco, and a leather goods shop which was owned by some Germans who had to move out when WW2 began. In fact I briefly made contact with a lady now living in Australia who was related to that family. If she sees this perhaps she could add more.
Brian Thornett
Crabapple, Georgia.