This area is not one I am familiar with, either personally or within any research I've done over the years.
I too looked at directories as jonwarrn did, and doubt that schools churches etc would be listed with a number on a street on maps, directories, census returns etc - they were too recognisable to miss?
This page gives a snynopsis of the history of the school (use CTRL and F to search the page and look for Sacred Heart to go directly to the entry saves scrolling)
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol8/pp117-135
and though its not the same time frame as you are looking for, you can see the church, presbytery and school marked in 1901 on this Goad fire insurance map
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/City_of_London?gid=842bc6f5-eaa1-59a4-a2bb-20aef60fce90#position=18.3983/51.55004/-0.115082&year=1901
this page on the NLS gives info about the symbols etc on these maps and says that numbers parellel with the street are the house numbers - 4a Grove street, where your Alfred was, is clearly marked on that Goad map and is the other side of the road from the church
https://maps.nls.uk/towns/goad/abbreviations.html
Also check the 1921 census for Alfred who was in a convalescent home in Worthing, that tells you the name of his employer and where he worked. Whether employment records for London County Council still exist I don't know but the London Metropolitan Archives may be able to tell you
Boo
Thanks for the links.
There was definitely a school at the church at that time although it has now moved across the road and round the corner.
I was trying to work out what I was looking at on the GOAD map and the legend. Looking from Georges St.;
As you say, the numbers parallel to the buildings are the house numbers, and so it would appear that 1, 3, 5, 7 are duplicated.
I am presuming that the no. 5 I am dealing with is on the right hand side opposite the church.
The houses on the left were built after the ones on the right. The ones on the right were there in 1874 whereas there was some sort of parkland opposite then.
With the exception of 8, the houses on the right are two story with slate roofs. There is a one storey extension on the back of 4a, 4, 5, 6 & 7. Might this be the outside toilet?
5 seems to be larger than the others, although I can’t work out the 1 storey extension attached to it. I suppose if this one was divided into individual rooms it would make sense for the family (5 of them) to have 4a, and then my GGF moves into 5 when the family is split up
In the back garden of 4a there is a one storey building and in the back garden of 5 there is a one storey building that seems to have a felt roof.
Given the width of the houses, and available space to let light in, s it safe to assume they had one room at the front and one at the back both upstairs and downstairs.
Do you think they would open out onto the road rather than have a front garden
I think I now have a better picture in my mind of what these houses looked like.
Those maps were almost hypnotic when you’re looking for answers in them. Thanks
Thanks also for your additional posts I will work my way through them
