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Plessey View - Plessey Gardens Blyth
« on: Tuesday 06 May 25 17:47 BST (UK) »
 Does anyone know where Plessey Gardens or Plessey View were in Blyth? I'm doing some wider family history background research and have extended family living in these places in 1911 and 1921 respectively. Are they part of Plessey road or different streets? They are (were) both in the Crofton area.
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Re: Plessey View - Plessey Gardens Blyth
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 06 May 25 18:28 BST (UK) »
In the 1911 census 1-6 Plessey Gardens are included followed by 1 Plessey Terrace but I can't see it (Plessey Gardens) on the map  :-\

https://maps.nls.uk/view/132267656#zoom=5.3&lat=2075&lon=9228&layers=BT

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Re: Plessey View - Plessey Gardens Blyth
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 06 May 25 18:42 BST (UK) »
My current guess is that these were stretches of housing on Plessey Road.

Here is some evidence in relation to Plessey Gardens:

24 June 1926: Blyth News

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NEW BLYTH GARAGE.
The United Automobile Services, Ltd., which has its headquarters on the Link Road at Blyth, has commenced this week the erection of their new garage and offices at the Plessey Road side of Croft Park, which will completely alter the entrance arrangements into the football enclosure.

In carrying out the scheme, it is hoped that an arrangement will be made with the Borough Council, to remove the cul-de-sac behind Plessey Gardens which abuts on the site by giving access to the street at the south end. This will be a distinct public improvement.

Here are before-and-after map views:

1921
https://maps.nls.uk/view/132279290#zoom=5.3&lat=4135&lon=4943&layers=BT


1937
https://maps.nls.uk/view/132279293#zoom=5.6&lat=3799&lon=5067&layers=BT

The only obvious candidate for Plessey Gardens is that row of 6-7 on the north side of Plessey Road facing on to the allotments.
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Re: Plessey View - Plessey Gardens Blyth
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 06 May 25 19:01 BST (UK) »
Looking on streetview, I think that Plessey Gardens was what is now 178-186 Plessey Road (6 houses). The terrace has clearly been extended (188-200 are in a different style) and you can see this by comparing the two maps that I linked to above: there are more houses towards the bus depot.
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 06 May 25 20:09 BST (UK) »
14 August 1933: Blyth News

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More recently there has been another obliteration of street nomenclature. There was previously Plessey Terrace, Plessey Gardens, and Plessey View. These have now been merged in the solitary description of Plessey Road, which now stretches right from Blyth quayside, on through Newsham, and to the top of New Delaval, and a re-numbering of nearly the whole of the houses in this the longest of local thoroughfares, stretching to sonething like a couple of miles, became imperative.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 06 May 25 20:18 BST (UK) »
5 October 1925: Blyth News
A report of an accident involving a bus and a motor cycle at the junction of Croft Road and Plessey Road. The injured motor cyclist was "...assisted to his home in nearby Plessey View..."

Added: so possibly the terrace of houses now starting at 102 Plessey Road and going as far as Coomassie Road? (Croft Road no longer has a junction with Plessey Road at the “102 end”.
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Re: Plessey View - Plessey Gardens Blyth
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 08 May 25 15:39 BST (UK) »
Hi Kay, Alan, thank you for your thoughts, ideas and the useful web links. Kay, it's fascinating on the 1897 map, to see Crofton as a separate place. Interesting too, to see, Plessey Terrace indicated, but what is it? A raised earthwork, a couple of fences, a flat grassed area or is it the name for that part of Plessey waggonway between Croft Road and Robert Street before it became part of Plessey Road?
Alan, I think you're right with your location of Plessey Gardens, certainly the evidence you provide points that way. The gardens being the allotment gardens they overlooked. The news article from 1933, clearly shows that, separate blocks of housing which became part of Plessey road had differing names. It's a shame there is no stone carved block on each row showing its old name. I believe their are some of these old names still around Blyth. I thought I spotted one above the Crofton convenience store, sadly it said Plessey road. I have started following the possible route of the enumerator in 1911, and discovered other places I had not heard of such as Princess Gardens, and Wykeham Terrace. Suffice to say I have a much better understanding of where these places were. Thanks again, cheers🍻
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