#StreetStudy Directory & #HouseHistory Directory

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[London Street Guide @LondonStreetGu4]

Black Boy Lane, N15, in Tottenham, Haringey, is set to be renamed after the poet and activist John Rose in the New Year.

The change was decided after some people objected to the racial connotations of the original street name.

The Black Boy in question is thought to be a…

[#StreetStudy Directory & #HouseHistory Directory @StreetStudy]

Is your #StreetStudy planning a #StreetParty for H.M The Queen's #Platinum #Jubilee?

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Looking forward to it!
#househistoryhour
#househistory

[Holst Victorian House @HolstMuseum]

Can't wait to share our stories #HouseHistoryHour #Victorian

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In between censuses, local #newspaper small ads can reveal helpful facts about a family - this example gives us a surname & shows us a furry member was lost - hope they found him!
>> #StreetStudies #HouseHistories #OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory are all entwined <<

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In between censuses, local #newspaper small ads can reveal helpful facts about a family - this example seeking a general servant tells us there were five members
>> #StreetStudies #HouseHistories #OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory are all entwined <<

[Nicholas Kingsley @NicholasKingsle]

My #countryhousepic today shows Claughton Manor House, Birkenhead, built before 1836 for Sir William Jackson MP, the principal developer of the town of Birkenhead, and designed by Charles Reed (later Verelst). It was occupied by the Jacksons until 1930 and demolished soon after.

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Which of these events happened first in your #HouseHistory or #StreetStudy
🟣a birth?
or
🟣a death?
At Wildwood Terrace, North End, Hampstead built c. 1884 a birth at No. 1 on 1 Mar 1887 has now been pipped by a death at No. 4 on 4 Nov 1885.

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"11 miles of Chancery record shelving" - the 2,000 page transcript for just one house must have taken up a hundred or so inches of that?
#HouseHistoryHour
#HouseHistory

[Susan Moore Research @STMResearch]

I hope this has encouraged you to investigate the 11 miles of Chancery record shelving at TNA to shed more light on the history of your house #househistoryhour

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"You need to be at TNA to look at the indexes and calendars, and of course the documents themselves"
If only they were digitised! Not much 'chancery' of that!
#HouseHistoryHour
#HouseHistory

[Susan Moore Research @STMResearch]

For all the other records you need to be at TNA to look at the indexes and calendars, and of course the documents themselves #househistoryhour

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We love getting our hands dirty!
#HouseHistoryHour

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We might be 'disappearing' there later! #HouseHistoryHour

[Charlie Booth @layersofhome]

@HouseHistoryHr Yes of course, I just disappeared off into @BNArchive land to have a root around - found a few I had already found & filed, but not registered. This from 1860, saved as a 'possible' to follow up on eventually #HouseHistoryHour

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"The records for any one Chancery case are scattered through a large number of different classes of records at TNA"
#HouseHistoryHour
#HouseHistory

[Susan Moore Research @STMResearch]

Many are handwritten and physically huge. By the mid 19th century they are much easier to handle. The records for any one Chancery case are scattered through a large number of different classes of records at TNA #househistoryhour

[Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria]

#HouseHistoryHour 🏠

I've been looking at Victorian slum housing in Bridgend.

"Near the toll-bar is Irish Court, so-called for its inhabitants. At its entry is an open and very offensive dung-heap."
⠀
George T Clark Sanitation Report of Bridgend • 1849 🚾

#Wales #History

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DYK in the weeks before the outbreak of #WW2 architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) was seeking a domestic situation for a 'gardener and cook, married German couple, well-trained' - in 1940, he was interned as an enemy alien at Huyton, Liverpool. #HouseHistory

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"I have 2000 pages of transcripts of chancery cases for this one house"
#HouseHistoryHour #HouseHistory Can anyone match that??!!

[Susan Moore Research @STMResearch]

For a medieval manor house in Surrey where every owner from 1500 onwards brought chancery cases against friends and neighbours, I have 2000 pages of transcripts of chancery cases for this one house. #househistoryhour

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"Chancery records run from 1386 to at least the 1940s"
#HouseHistory
#HouseHistoryHour

[Susan Moore Research @STMResearch]

The equity courts are civil courts and rather than dealing with the strict letter of the law of the common law courts, the equity courts sought what “a good man of moral conscience would do” Chancery records run from 1386 to at least the 1940s #househistoryhour

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Chancery Records - "the 'go-to' record for any new #HouseHistory commission"
#HouseHistoryHour

[Susan Moore Research @STMResearch]

What have I found in chancery records when tracing house histories? Everything! And more! It’s not surprising they are my ‘go-to’ record for any new house history commission #househistoryhour

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The latest addition to the
#HouseHistory Directory is:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿The Hall
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Wedmore
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Somerset
Find out more about the history of this Georgian property which, for a short time, was a school for up to 80 children
https://t.co/DGAnRaCBcs
@TheSDFHS @WillsmanOneName #OnePlaceStudies

[Louise Claire @louiseteaches]

Vicars' Close in Wells, Somerset, just beside the cathedral. The oldest Medieval residential street in England. "A planned street from the mid-14th century." Absolutely incredible.