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| RMMee Moderator Quote | Reply | | Aldercar Villas posted on: 3/18/2006 12:30:49 AM I've had a query "Where were Aldercar Villas," found in the 1891 census, but not in any others. I think I have come up with a definite answer, but am sharing it on here in case anyone else can add or disprove my view. To be certain of what I'm talking about, you would need to look at the same documents as me, namely the 1891 census covering Cromford Road, and the 1900 OS Map (large scale). (It would help if you had the plans of the Langley Mill Iron & Steel Works from 1881, but I suspect that they are a bit rarer.) Looking first at the census, the Charles Napier is the 11th schedule, and is called 10 Cromford Road. It is clear that the enumerator walked down Cromford Road towards Station Road – if you go to the end of that enumeration district, the enumerator then walks back up Cromford Road on the opposite side (reaching the Durham Ox and Plumptre Terrace). Aldercar Villas are schedules 19 and 20, lying between number 16 and number 17 Cromford Road. On the 1900 map, there are two houses set right up against the railway main line, with a path leading from directly opposite the top corner of the Durham Ox. These must be Aldercar Villas. The map shows 8 buildings between the Napier and the path, whereas the 1891 census records seven schedules rather than eight. Perhaps one was a new house, or perhaps one was not a dwelling at all. The plan of the Ironworks in 1881 shows these same two houses, which are not named, but are described as "Managers' Dwelling Houses." Also part of the works, there were three cottages and an office, next to the branch line that led up to Moorgreen. By the 1890's the works had been demolished (discussed elsewhere) but the cottages hadn't. After the two schedules for Aldercar Villas in the census, the next four entries (17 – 20 Cromford Road) show three 4-roomed houses followed by an unoccupied building (the office). Sorry if I've gone into lots of detail about something which no one else is interested in, but I wanted to set out the steps I had gone through in case anyone else might end up asking the same in the future. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 3/18/2006 8:00:33 AM Robert the OS MAP Revised 1950 still shows these properties recall there being a track to them opposite the Durham Ox used to deliver papers to them during the late 1940s |
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RMMee
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replied on: 3/18/2006 10:48:05 AM Perhaps they were knocked down for the industrial estate? |
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