Bardy Lane

[buona]

Does anyone know what type of dwellings were in Bardy Lane please?  Were they houses, courts or  tenements?  Thanks to anyone who can help

[rosie99]

Have you seen this post
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=545259.18

[Comberton]

Do you have a time period, house number, or occupant? Newspapers have notices of sale of Bardy Lane houses. This is from 1851.

[maddys52]

1861 map
https://maps.nls.uk/view/121145483#zoom=6.8&lat=3314&lon=5352&layers=BT

[AlanBoyd]

From information in Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants, of the parish of Whitehaven Rawlinson, Robert; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1849. it seems that nos. 1-5 were at that time a tenement owned by a Mr Savage. Each dwelling consisted of four rooms over two floors, and the total occupancy was 25.

occupiers:
James Clenhugh
John Onale
Michael Purcell
Barnard Murphy
James McLatta

These rooms are situate at the low end of Bardy-lane and are in a very dark and unwholesome place; at the bottom of the stairs is a sink for house refuse, which runs through under the adjoining house; no water-supply, privy, or ash-pit.

[AlanBoyd]

Two pubs in Bardy Lane in 1901

Bulmer's Directory of West Cumberland, 1901
(numbers are addresses)

Patrick Kerr, vict., Manx Arms, 4
Mrs Christina Kelly, shopkeeper, 13
Jane Wright, fish dealer, 16
Alex Henry Greenlaw, joiner and vict. and, Sailor's Tavern, 17
Thomas Gair, grocer, 18

[buona]

Thank you rosie99, Comberton, Maddys52 and Alan for your very informative and in-depth replies.
 Yes, rosie99, I had seen the post you mention but it seemed to be more about the various “steps” and the Town Mission than about the type of houses.                                                                             

From the map I was directed to, the “plots” on Bardy Lane seem to have quite a good bit of land (I had imagined that they would be “back-to-backs”).                                                                                                     

The article from the Whitehaven News is interesting.  On reading the advert, one wouldn’t think they would be something like the properties Alan describes.  Certainly doesn’t sound like a nice place to live and the thought of a bakery (as per the advert) situated in the conditions Alan describes is unimaginable.                                                                                                                                                                             

Would No.15 Bardy Lane be near the "sink" Alan describes - would it be on the same side of the road?  I am grateful for all your help in this.

[DCB]

There is a report on some houses in the West Cumberland Times 12th June 1912 regarding the condition of some houses, and another in 1913 describing some as unfit for habitation.

[maddys52]

 

                                                                                                                                                                           

Would No.15 Bardy Lane be near the "sink" Alan describes - would it be on the same side of the road?  I am grateful for all your help in this.

On the map it appears there is only one inn on Bardy Lane - the "Sailors Tavern" according to reply#4 from Alan, or the "Sailors Home" on the 1881 census. This is at 17 Bardy Lane. It's a bit hard to work out how the street numbering goes from the census, but presumably number 15 is close to number 17. On the 1881 census the numbers go :
2, 3, 4, 13, 14 "1 Bridson's Court" 
(RG11/5185/71 pg39&40)
"Bardy Lane Bridson's Court 2-7", 16, 17, 18, 5-11. - then James Place.
(RG11/5185/75 pg1-4)
 There is no 15 Bardy Lane on the 1881 census that I'm looking at, haven't looked yet for it in other years.

This suggests to me, looking at the map, numbers 5-11 are on the western side, Bridson's Court is behind the inn, then numbers 15, 16 and 17 (the Inn). I could be wrong though!