Early street map of Hulme,Manchester

[Kimberley]

If someone knows of a map that shows early streets in Hulme.
More particularly streets below in years shown:

1849 - Stamford Street & Dorning Street

1851 - Dorrington Street

1871-  Blackburn Street

Anyone with local knowledge may know if these streets in Hulme still exist or are renamed.

[Rowan Tree]

Hi,

I don't know if you're still looking, but if you are, you might want to try The Godfrey Edition Old Ordnance Survey Maps. Hulme, St. George 1849 (sheet 37) and Hulme 1844 (sheet 38). They're inexpensive to buy (try Waterstones).

Good luck,

Rowan 

[MollyC]

These are all the OS layers available from the NLS website.  The eastern boundary of Hulme starts in the north near the gasworks and follows a wavy line including Boundary Lane, which stands out from the street pattern.

6-inch 1st edition c1850
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.46826&lon=-2.25853&layers=257&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
6-inch 2nd edition c1900
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.46826&lon=-2.25853&layers=6&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
25-inch 1892-1914
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.46826&lon=-2.25853&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
1:1056 1848-50
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.46830&lon=-2.25850&layers=5054&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
1:500 1889-90
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=53.46830&lon=-2.25850&layers=117746211&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

[Rowan Tree]

Hi, Molly,

I find your reply really useful. I just wanted to say thank you. I'm trying to improve my digital map skills. The links you provided are going to come in so handy for me.

Rowan 

[MollyC]

It just happens I have had my own FH research to do in Hulme earlier this year, which involved finding 5 addresses over a period of 15 years.  There is a good set of rate books on Familysearch at
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/1132204
but they are tedious to use.  FS says there are two wards and there are street indexes.  Actually it was first divided into two wards in 1853, not clearly titled until 1854.  Street indexes first appear in 1858.  1862 has Medlock Ward mis-titled with no street index.  Wish I had known all that at the outset!
If you want to find house numbers you need to use the OS post-2ndWW large scale series, either 1:1250 scale in urban areas or 1:2500 in rural areas.  They are not on the 1st (A) editions everywhere.  There are a few places where the B edition is not yet out of copyright.

[Rowan Tree]

Molly, you're a star! That's really helpful. Thanks.

I've only very recently discovered that I have ancestors in Hulme. I'm not sure when they date back to as there seems to have been some relocating to Chester and back again, but one line is late 1820s to the 1860s. I'm looking at the names BARNETT and PHILLIPS and occupations along the lines of anything cotton mill related, rubber works, whitesmith, engineer and warehouseman.

I'm finding it fascinating looking at Hulme and using maps properly for the first time.

Rowan 

[MollyC]

See my reply #5 here:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=890832.msg7647544#msg7647544
The names were Wadsworth and Hague, father was a joiner - the one thing he could not change!

It took me back a long way because for 3 years I was studying in the SE corner of the map extract, at the university, and at the time they were busy demolishing everything north of there, acres of brick rubble between streets with no function any more.

[Rowan Tree]

That's incredible! It must have been challenging to unravel that mystery, but also very satisfying when you worked out what was going on.