Horafield Street Middlesbrough

[Redroger]

To get a feeling for the street look at the 1901 and 1911 censuses. If a high proportion of the occupations of the residents are railway occupations then there is a likelihood that the street was houses provided by the railway compnay. Gazeteers for the area should give an indication as to when the houses were demolished. Year on year there will be a decline in the number of houses listed. Old electoral registers held in the local reference library will confirm the situation.

[Helene hanff]

Hi
I looked at the 1881 and 1891 census and did a spreadsheet with the fourteen houses listed in 1881 there is a mixture of employment from 6  labourers, 2 moulders,   blacksmith,  boilersmith,  bricklayer fitter and turner E&M, mariner, engineman 22-2, an engine fitter and finally two engineers.  In 1891 there are now 24 houses a waterside labourer, 2 general labourers, rigger, 3 ship wrights, painter, machine sawyer, commision agent, pipe moulder, seaman, stationery engineman, ship plater, driller, coach smith, ships broker, patent steel wire drawer, bricklayer, blacksmith striker, steamcrane driver, engine fitter, cabinet maker and finally my family an engine driver.

Thanks for your help. I presume the houses were two up two down and the census number of rooms for 1891 shows 4 and living in no, 9 there was head wife and nine children cramped or what.

regards
Rosemary

[Pels.]

Hi again,

A later census informs us some of the houses in the street were actually only two roomed properties, whereas number 24 - if that was the right house, had four rooms and eight occupants. Ages ranged from forty seven years old, down to seven years of age. The head of house was a Labourer employed in a Chemical Works.

Pels.

[Pels.]

Hi again,

A later census informs us some of the houses in the street were actually only two roomed properties, whereas number 24 - if that was the right house, had four rooms and eight occupants. Ages ranged from forty seven years old, down to seven years of age. The head of house was a Labourer employed in a Chemical Works.

Not sure what happened there - it told me the first reply hadn't posted.

Pels.

[Helene hanff]

Thanks for that
Rosemary

[Redroger]

That sometimes happens to me too Pels  Rosemary, I think we are fairly safe in assuming that this was not purpose built railway housing.Next step, google old maps, and see if you can get an approximate date from the ordnance survey maps when the area was developed, if it appears as built up on all the OS maps, then a tithe map for the area should give an idea. This will be in the range 1800-1840.

[Helene hanff]

Hi
 I looked at the 1895 and 1955 maps and so know that the street hadn't changed so sometime after then the industrial area was developed

thanks for your help
regards
Rosemary

[macintosh]

Horsefield St. is shown as mapped on a local map of Middlesbrough in 1866 for Beer licence Applications although there are no indications of properties. It is Map no.8 in The History of Middlesbrough in Maps Published by the Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society ISBN 0 9507199 0 0.  I obtained mine from the Middlesbrough Archives in Marton Road Middlesbrough (The Old GPO building) Many years ago.

I visited Horsefield St this morning although it retains the same shape as early maps, it has been  redeveloped, the only original building left is St. John the Evangelist Church consecrated 1865, there are some buildings which are the rear facades of properties on Marton Rd though probably 50s or 60s era. I remember the whole of that area being demolished from the early 70s onwards


James

[Helene hanff]

Gosh Thank you James that was great of you. The heart and soul of towns gets ripped out when the new areas get redeveloped. Some people call  it progress
thanks
Rosemary