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This message was updated on 3/9/2006 7:12:26 PM by paulr

 History behind the street/road names
replied on: 3/9/2006 10:27:10 AM
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I'm not sure where all the toll booths were. There was certainly one near the Midland Hotel at Langley Mill, and another in Smalley, but where in between I'll have to leave for others at the moment.

Cecil Grace used to live at Elmsfield House, which was also once the home of John Holbrook

Robert.
I remember a lady,I think her name was Joan Grace,she lived at the house on the corner of Grace Crescent,in the 50's she used to drive a DUKW (pronounced Duck) a army amphibious vehicle and it was always parked on the drive,I don't know how true it was but several people have told me that she used to take it to Skegness and take trips down on the beach.Would this be Elmsfield House?Joan had a new bungalow built opposite "The Bell" in Smalley and when she moved E.Slater (Slaters Glass)started trading from there.
Was John Holbrook.A Landowner/ property developer/building contractor? because I have a copy of my Grandfathers mortgage for a house in Thompson Street,Langley Mill which states: a parcel of land containing Six acres and twenty perches or thereabouts was conveyed to the said John Holbrook by an indenture dated the twenty eighth day of March One thousand nine hundred and seven which was made between The Reverend Archibald Collingwood Stephens of the first part,Mary Thompson of the second part,William Robert Thompson and Frederick Hubert Thompson of the third part and the said John Holbrook of the of the fourth part together with the adjoining ----- or eighteen feet in width of an intended new street called or intended to be called Thompson Street which is forever hereafter to be left open and unbuilt upon as and to form part of a public Street or Road. The larger piece or parcel of land remaining the property of the said John Holbrook.
This explains where Thompson Street got it's name, I wonder if the larger piece of land refers to the "Aristoc" plots between Eastview Terrace (Penders Row)Thompson Street and Ebenezer Street I remember the land between North Street and the railway from the footbridge down to the Gasworks being allotments before Sissons built the new dyehouse.
PaulR
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