3 Forster Ave Nottingham

[Pelican]

My grandparents first home after they got married in 1900 was 3 Forster Ave, Nottingham.

I cannot seem to find it on modern maps and it may have disappeared like so many places in the Blitz. 

The maps tell me however there is a Forster Street. Are Forster Ave and Forster one and the same please?

[hanes teulu]

A 1908 Nottingham newspaper advert has the address "Forster Avenue, Forster Street, Radford"

[AlanBoyd]

In 1939 it is recorded as a short run of addresses between 105 and 107 Forster Street.

[AlanBoyd]

Labelled here on the 1964 large scale map.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/210787524#zoom=4.8&lat=7772&lon=5391&layers=BT

Added: looking on street view, that part of Forster Street has been redeveloped.

[hanes teulu]

The 1901 Census reads
"105 Forster Street, 1 - 6 Forster Avenue, 107 Forster Street ..."

1901 map Forster Rd
https://maps.nls.uk/view/115392368#zoom=5.7&lat=6202&lon=10076&layers=BT

Yet to establish where 105 and 107 is! Avenue not identfied.

AB - just about to post!

[AlanBoyd]

29 September 1976: Nottingham Evening Post

The houses in Forster Avenue are listed within a very large compulsory purchase as part of a clearance order.

[hanes teulu]

Historical Directories
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/165769/rec/13

Between Clapham St and Norwood Road.

[Pelican]

Thank you everyone. That was an interesting read, explains too why the other places where Grandad lived have also disappeared!! I have been walking around Nottingham on Google maps and in most streets I was interested in the houses look too modern for the late 1800's and the early 1900's even if the street name remained the same. In some cases like Forster Ave the street disappeared too. That map makes it very clear where it was, great.

By the way, it is a pleasant occupation walking around places on Google maps!!!

Again my thanks to you all. Explains everything.

[Chris Doran]

I used to walk through that area daily during my time in Nottingham in the late 1960s. I can't remember Forster Avenue specifically, but all the streets in that area consisted of Coronation Street like terraces with little if anything by way of front gardens and front doors opening directly onto the pavement.