Category Archives: Roads

Simmonds Cottages

Listed in the 1925 street directory as a terrace of 3 houses on the south side of Miles Lane (later Miles Road), east of the parish churchyard and west of Edmund Road. The houses were numbered east to west as 1,2,3:

1, Charles Bunce
2, A.F. North, boot repairer
2, Edward North
3, William Henry North

1910 OS map

1910 OS map

The cottages were demolished, sometime before 1953 as the OS map for that year shows that the varnish factory of RJ Hamer occupies the site. After the paint factory closed, the site was used for various car repair workshops. In 2007, the site was redeveloped for housing as Venus Mews.

Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

Venus Mews

Road with housing development off south side of Miles Road, and on eastern edge of the parish churchyard. Built on site of former RJ Hamer varnish factory.

Planning application 02/P0460 :

Redevelopment of site involving the erection of 10 dwelling houses (6×3 bed and 4×4 bed); 3 storey building comprising 3 class B1 business units, 2 live/work units, 8×1 and 1×2 bed flats, together with parking and servicing spaces
and landscaping.

An archaeological survey was initially recommended by English Heritage, but later withdrawn, and so such survey was done.