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Allen’s Cottages

Listed in the 1925 street directory, a terrace of 4 cottages, in Acacia Road on the north side of the road, after number 11. The occupants were:

  • 4. Edward Walls
  • 3. Percy Owen Pennegar
  • 2. William Dalton
  • 1. William James Allen

However, these maps show a terrace of cottages on the east side of Ebenezer Walk.

Maps

On 20th January 1903, a terrace of cottages in Church Road, called Allen’s Terrace, was to be renamed Keen’s Terrace to avoid confusion with Allen’s Cottages. In the 1911 census, this seems not to have happened as there is an Allen Terrace shown.

1911 Census for the family of Private Edward (Edwin) Ingham

Kings Road

Originally called Queen’s Road. Name changed between and 1891 and 1900 to avoid confusion with the Queens Road near Phipps Bridge.

The 1891 directory describes Queen’s Road from Grove Road to Spencer’s Road:

EAST SIDE

1 George FOSTER
2 Charles WILSON
3 George HARRISON
4 Thomas TOMKINS
5 Mrs HUNTINGFORD
7 John HUSSEY
8 Stephen TILLEY
9 Levi WHITE, inspector of nuisances for Croydon rural sanitary authority
10 William ROPER

1910 OS map

1910 OS map

From Grove Road to Spencer Road, as described in the 1915 street directory:

EAST SIDE

John BAKER, builder
Mrs. Emma BAKER, grocer
1 Samuel FORD
2 Frederick WALLS
3 George HARRISON
4 William HARRISON
5 James FIELD
6 George William SWALLOW
7 H HAZEL
8 Thomas PRATT
9 Charles VOGEL
10 Leonard CRAIG
11 James DELL
12 Charles GREEN
13 William Henry WILSON
14 Josiah GOOZEE
17 Alfred BALL
18 David W TAPPING


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