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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 24 July 10 11:46 BST (UK) »
Again, thanks everyone. Hovever, I've not been able to find anything from the Western Mail 1870 about life in the Barracks. If anyone can forward a link I'd appreciate it.

If you go here: http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/

put in search : barracks +dudley

dates between Jan 1 1870 and Jan 1 1871

then you get two results. Click on the thumbnail of a newspaper for the "Modern Rome" result (Western Mail, Thursday, November 3, 1870; Issue 473) and you should get a small preview of part of the article. To see it all you need to pay or find a subscribing library. Do the same for the lower result.

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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 25 July 10 11:32 BST (UK) »
Extract from Newspaper report  Nov.3rd 1870

    Upon a recent visit ti the Barracks in Dudley, we found the houses in a miserably,delapidates condition, and some of them not fit for
cccupation. In close proximity to these places, are the workshops of the nailors. It will not be surprising then, that fever should be found
raging in the locality. There was one case of fever at a house which had some part of the roof off. In another hovel was a nailor, his wife and six children, all suffering from severe attacks of fever.At some of the houses, all the shutters were closed, in consequance of the
almost entire absence of glass to the windows, and in one of these, the only furniture was a bench, where lay four fever stricken
children, and a stool, upon which sat the mother suffering from the same terrible scourge, and leaning her throbbing head near to her mourning little children.

     My Oakley ancestors(nailors) lived nearby at Snowhill, probably living in the same conditions. In 1841 there is an Ann Jewkes aged 20
living with my 3xg.grandfather + family.

Jackie
Dudley Worcs:Ellis Durkin Oakley Rich Smith
Baggot Saunders Turner Williams Hobbs
Harts Hill: Baggot Wright

Tipton:Whitehouse (boatman) Timmins
Yorkshire:Littlewood Wilcockson
Derbyshire:Wilcockson

Derby Belper:Spencer
Herefordshire Brampton Bryan:-Turner

Worcs. Hereford. Gloucs.
Hodgetts




Radnorshire: Meredith
Bristol Somerset: Box

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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #11 on: Monday 26 July 10 11:04 BST (UK) »
Gardener, thanks for your help on this. Much appreciated. I will pay and get the full article.

Jacquelineve, thanks for the extract. Sounds like shocking conditions.
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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #12 on: Monday 02 August 10 19:50 BST (UK) »
yes if memory is correct Stafford Street did used to be Old Mill Street and the "barracks" were workers houses Im pretty sure they were close to the "old docklands" as well x

I had same prob trying to locate the "Dudley Hutments" turned out to be right under my nose and a recent meet with a 5th cousin I discovered her grandfather had built them x
Lounds/Loundes/Lowns/Lownds/Lowndes
Kendrick/Goodhead
Martin/Mocroft/Moorcroft
Finch/Boden/Brazenhall
Cadman/Vanes
Beddard/Goodman
Innocent/Lagoe
Taylor/Walker/Baker/Starkey/Buckley
Dudley, Willenhall, Mancetter, Atherstone, Measham, Church Broughton


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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 03 August 10 11:33 BST (UK) »
Angel Eyes
                     Were the Dudley Hutments also known as the Munition Huts, built during or just after Great War for munition workers?

                    My dad was born there in 1927.
Jackie.
Dudley Worcs:Ellis Durkin Oakley Rich Smith
Baggot Saunders Turner Williams Hobbs
Harts Hill: Baggot Wright

Tipton:Whitehouse (boatman) Timmins
Yorkshire:Littlewood Wilcockson
Derbyshire:Wilcockson

Derby Belper:Spencer
Herefordshire Brampton Bryan:-Turner

Worcs. Hereford. Gloucs.
Hodgetts




Radnorshire: Meredith
Bristol Somerset: Box

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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 03 August 10 14:14 BST (UK) »
thats very interesting Jackie it was 1927 when my grandparents got married they lived at 34 ~ wonder if yur grandparents knew my grandparents. I also have a newspaper article about them about a fire what spred through them. It says it was soon nicknamed "Shanty Town"

"there were 345 wooden houses let at108 for 5 shillings and 228 for 6 and 6 pence per week there were also nine hostels... The Hutments were constructed entirely from wood and were asbestos lined, being fitted out in the most primitive manner and arranged in blocks with alphabetical reference."

Will have to try and scan the newspaper article and let yu have a copy

M x
Lounds/Loundes/Lowns/Lownds/Lowndes
Kendrick/Goodhead
Martin/Mocroft/Moorcroft
Finch/Boden/Brazenhall
Cadman/Vanes
Beddard/Goodman
Innocent/Lagoe
Taylor/Walker/Baker/Starkey/Buckley
Dudley, Willenhall, Mancetter, Atherstone, Measham, Church Broughton

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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 03 August 10 17:46 BST (UK) »

 I've seen that news report,(Times Digital). also one about the huts being cleared , set on fire, but for the life of me I can't remember
where I read it.!

Have we been in contact before re Brazenall? My 4xg gran was a Phoebe B. married John Griffin. also Kendrick (no connection) rings a
bell.

Jackie
Dudley Worcs:Ellis Durkin Oakley Rich Smith
Baggot Saunders Turner Williams Hobbs
Harts Hill: Baggot Wright

Tipton:Whitehouse (boatman) Timmins
Yorkshire:Littlewood Wilcockson
Derbyshire:Wilcockson

Derby Belper:Spencer
Herefordshire Brampton Bryan:-Turner

Worcs. Hereford. Gloucs.
Hodgetts




Radnorshire: Meredith
Bristol Somerset: Box

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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 03 August 10 17:50 BST (UK) »
Hi Jackie

Not sure if we have spoken before my G G Grandmother was Eliza Brazenall born in 1843 Dudley she married James Kendrick b 1841 in Dudley.

Richard Benbow wrote the article x

M x
Lounds/Loundes/Lowns/Lownds/Lowndes
Kendrick/Goodhead
Martin/Mocroft/Moorcroft
Finch/Boden/Brazenhall
Cadman/Vanes
Beddard/Goodman
Innocent/Lagoe
Taylor/Walker/Baker/Starkey/Buckley
Dudley, Willenhall, Mancetter, Atherstone, Measham, Church Broughton

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Re: The Barracks, Stafford Street, Dudley?
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 03 August 10 18:03 BST (UK) »

 I remember now, was it your g.grandad Kendrick who lived at Hillside Rd, my gran + grandad + also me until I was 7., lived opposite.

Jackie
Dudley Worcs:Ellis Durkin Oakley Rich Smith
Baggot Saunders Turner Williams Hobbs
Harts Hill: Baggot Wright

Tipton:Whitehouse (boatman) Timmins
Yorkshire:Littlewood Wilcockson
Derbyshire:Wilcockson

Derby Belper:Spencer
Herefordshire Brampton Bryan:-Turner

Worcs. Hereford. Gloucs.
Hodgetts




Radnorshire: Meredith
Bristol Somerset: Box

Census Information is Crown Copyright from
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