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Hi

Do you have the date of this map as it doesnt show Rowen St (or a few others) where I grew up? You can find Coalbrook St and then there is a gap where there were 3 or 4 more streets. I had thought they were all built more or less at the same time but perhaps not......

Paul

Hi Paul,

I think the pink map is from 1857.

This is an even earlier one of the same area from around 1813.

Cheers

Martin

Thanks for the school photo.

Not only did my dad attend Birley Street School but he also lived on Devon St with my gran and his many brothers and sisters. The picture is a little too early for him to be shown, however, his brothers Bill, Ted and George also went there and were all older than him so perhaps one of them is on the photo?

Paul

Hi Paul,

Yes, they may well be on it and they may have been neighbours.  My Dad and his Parents and younger Brother lived at 47 Devon Street, but also moved to a couple of other addresses on the same road.

I've just started researching my family tree and found that in the late 1800's one of my Grandads Uncles decided to go to South Africa for work as there were opportunities in diamond mining. 
He must have done well, but as he was returning to England he found that someone had gone through his bags and stolen his diamonds.  Luckily he had kept some in a money belt on his person and when he returned to Manchester he sold them and used the money to buy 14 houses on Devon Street!

It may be why my Grandad, and at least one other relation, moved to Devon Street.

Martin