Deciphering 1930 Redcar street name

[Phodgetts]

The house in question.

[Eamann]

For Hhodgetts and Ceeoh:

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply! Work, work, work!

Hhodgetts: I am very grateful to you for going to the trouble of taking that photo and posting it on the site! The house is not listed in the 1925 Electoral List but appears in that of 1930. Presumably it was built at some time in between those dates. Is number 2 the house with the garden and flowers? You say that it used be a chemist shop but it does not seem outwardly to have changed much since it was built. Once again, many thanks!

Ceeoh: Thanks for that correction and for the additional information about Laburnum Road and Park Avenue. The first time I looked up "Lime Road" in Google Maps I found a street nearer Middlesborough, situated roughly between the A1085 and B1380.

My grandfather Michael Magee was a car mechanic from Belfast. After demobilization he emigrated with his newly-wed wife to Redcar where he worked first as a bus driver and then as a mechanic in the bus depot in Dormanstown. My mother was born in 1924 in Brooksbank Ave.. Shortly after that my grandfather and grandmother separated and she went back to Belfast while Michael stayed on in Redcar with his sweetheart. In 1930 he emigrated to Detroit to work in Ford's. On his immigration papers he gave 2 Lime Road as his last address. In the 1930 Redcar electoral list I found that the residents of 2 Lime Road were listed as: Michael MaGee (sic) and Elizabeth Annie Burgess. I thought that Elizabeth may have been Michael's sweetheart, but I could not find any trace of her emigrating to Canada/America. One day when I find time I will sit down and try and discover who she was.

Once again, thank you both for your help in making my grandfather's stay in Redcar become alive for me!

Eamann

[Phodgetts]

Is number 2 the house with the garden and flowers?

Yes it is 


 You say that it used be a chemist shop but it does not seem outwardly to have changed much since it was built.

This house was never a chemist. The chemist was further down the road on the opposite side of the street.

Glad to help with the picture. They always make things come to life don't they.

[Eamann]

Hello Hhodgets!

Thank you once again for the photo of the house where my grandfather lived before emigrating to Detroit in 1930.

In the meantime I have made contact with my grandfather's surviving American son who is very glad to have the picture of the house. He still has his father's receipt for the ticket to Detroit via Quebec purchased from Albert Walker, 2 West Terrace.

Best wishes,

Eamann