Find house owner?

[Emm]

I never realised how interesting this was going to be.
Thank you all so much for taking the trouble to help me.

Mushroom Cottage stood alone in a field.
At that time, my grandfather owned 10 cottages on the main road in Normanby.
A council house estate was built where the cottage had stood.
I have an 1896 OS map, which shows Mushroom Cottage standing alone.
The council house which the family moved into, was only several hundred yards away from where the cottage had been.
 

[maidmarion]

Hi Emm,
There is also the Registry of Deeds which is located in the West Yorkshire Archives Dept building in Wakefield. Perhaps it may be worth contacting them 
http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/index.asp?pg=ablocw.html

[Redroger]

It's not the records at TNA that I complain about, it's those guides to them. Virtually incomprehensible (to me at any rate)!

[Emm]

@ redroger 

Maidmarion - that just seems to be for the West Riding, I am afraid.

[maidmarion]

Hi Emm,
Sorry I saw Normanby and thought of the one in West Yorkshire....

http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3140

[coombs]

I agree with Regroger about the guides at TNA.

[newburychap]

I agree with Regroger about the guides at TNA.

I guess they may not make a lot of sense unless you have a grasp of their cataloguing system - I find them very useful if I am venturing into a new area at TNA.

[Redroger]

After 14 years I've still not fully grasped the system. Perhaps I'm either thick, or am seeing things that are not really problems with the system.

[coombs]

Now that I have found a reference at the TNA to them having an 1896 London census then I hope to make another visit there soon.