Hi Dave in Spain and if you are there you lucky so and so, ok here goes we're Wrexham born and bred and we did a bit of detective work for you. We're pretty convinced the place your after is Mount Pleasant and it's on what is now Caia Road, after looking at some old maps and following the original route taken by the enumeratuion census we think it is actually the row of terraced houses ( built out of the world famous Ruabon red housebrick ), which incidentally are still there, next to Caia house ( was a pub for a long time and is now a vetenary surgeons ), we think they were called Mount Pleasant as when they were built the road was not called Caia road. Now Haverlock Square and the Dog Kennels were demolished when the railway line was built in the 1890's and the tanneries sprung up in that area, in 1881 the houses called Mount Pleasant were not built but by 1899 they were. Now this may be a red herring but Mount Street in the 1890's was supposedly a picturesque street but the courts off it were classed as slums and they are listed in the enumeration route so when they built the row of terraces on Caia Road perhaps the use of " Mount Pleasant " was a way of detracting the image of the slum area. There is a public house in the enumeration route called the Anchor Inn and this was on the corner of Eagle Street and Salop Road, this was demolished in the late 60's early 70's, the road directly opposite this pub is what's now known as Caia Road. We can't understand why the census returns miss out house number five though. Oh where Eagle Street used to be is now roughly where the ring road around the new precinct is. We'll drive past the terraced houses tomorrow and take another look at them to see if they are called Mount Pleasant now, the area now looks nothing like the old maps at all, that's progress we suppose.
