Chesterfield Cottages, Cromer - who lived here 1920?

[jamie300]

why is he wearing his work clothes (he was a butcher)?

Or is it a raincoat?

You think so? I thought it looked more like work overalls, especially with the pockets and the fact it looks white.

Butchers seemed to wear such coats when they weren't wearing aprons:

https://flashbak.com/meat-is-beautiful-art-of-the-butchers-shop-window-1924-1970-56323/

[jamie300]

As you have discovered, it appears that Chesterfield Cottages was known formally as (or as part of) North Row back then.

James John Dennis married in 1921 and gave his address as 1 Chesterfield Cottages. In the electoral rolls his address is 1 North Row.

In the 1911 census there are at least three households (Blogg at 17, and Allen at 4 and 10) who gave addresses in Chesterfield Cottages but whose census returns were addressed to them in North Row.

In the 1920 and 1921 electoral rolls, Elizabeth Smith is at 19.

Thanks. I didn't think to look for alternate street names at first, because it's called "Chesterfield Cottages" now but also on the 1886 OS Map, and all maps I looked at in-between.

[hanes teulu]

The picture you have posted appears to me as a door set in a wall - not the front of a house. If you Streetview check the wall that runs from No 1 Chesterfield Cottages off Cabbell Road (behind the newly built Chesterfield Hall) and a second check from the Beach Road end there appear to be no doors set in the wall.

[jamie300]

The picture you have posted appears to me as a door set in a wall - not the front of a house. If you Streetview check the wall that runs from No 1 Chesterfield Cottages off Cabbell Road (behind the newly built Chesterfield Hall) and a second check from the Beach Road end there appear to be no doors set in the wall.

I don't think it's a wall, what you see at the top right is the bottom of the first floor window, not the top of the wall.

Compare with the front and rear of No.10 here: https://www.lastminute-cottages.co.uk/properties/united-kingdom/england/norfolk/north-norfolk-district/cromer/inviting-cromer-cottage-s71063

[hanes teulu]

Have you compared the no. of bricks in the bottom row over the door of the picture posted against the no. of bricks in any of the images available for Chesterfield Cottages on Streetview or for sale?

[jamie300]

Have you compared the no. of bricks in the bottom row over the door of the picture posted against the no. of bricks in any of the images available for Chesterfield Cottages on Streetview or for sale?

Unfortunately it's difficult because 1) many cottages, including no.19 now have porch extensions, 2) the cottages are on a gradient so the number of stones between doors and windows varies as you go down the row, and 3) the builders alternated between neat rows of flint stones, and a random placement, seemingly based on which side they got out of bed each morning (visible on streetview on the side elevation of no.20)

This is best view of 19 I can find, although the door pictured in 1920 could easily have been the door on the north side of the property rather than this one:

[jamie300]

double post

[hanes teulu]

A feature of the cottages that can be viewed is that the brickwork over both door or downstairs window is a single vertical brick followed by two half bricks to form the vertical. The brickwork in the posted picture is quite, quite different.

[ShaunJ]

Ernest Edward Gaff (mentioned earlier) married Florence Agnes Rose in 1922. She lived at 14 North Row, Cromer. Just throwing that in!