Quote:
Originally Posted by katex
My humble theory is that there are a few mistakes here and other people have just followed these mistakes. I think when there was that gap in the block from Peel Street to Marquis Street, the enumerator just counted all the buildings. Probably didn't have the door number on display.
Why should they change the numbers and then back again (Hope and Anchor is now listed as 27-31)? It would be obvious only a temporary gap.
Looked at the 1911 census and does show a beer seller there at no. 13 and a licensed vitualler at No. 19 (Hope and Anchor)which would be correct to line up with No.13. However, there are two entries for No. 13 ??... the second one being a Medical Practiioner.
Another emission on this census is not showing a 21 and 23 ... why's that I wonder ?
Mind you, it is also showing No. 31 as Dykenook !!
|
Katex, as Retlaw pointed out earlier, vacant plots of land (or yard as I called it, which it appears to be) were only included on the census return if they intended to build on the plot. The key word there is intended, ie, if plans were afoot to build on the plot. If it was a yard belonging to number 11 say, which it looks to be on the OS map, it wouldn't be given a number, as it was part of that property.
As I said Retlaw was clutching at straws. I'm sure on some streets and roads (in any town or city) you could have gaps between properties ranging from a few feet to a thousand yards. The enumerators wouldn't give every vacant plot a number just because they were there and there was future potential for development would they?
Again, even though I said I was finished with this thread, I must stress that the early census returns have no relevance, or at best very little relevance to a late 1920's photograph.
As for two entries at number 13, a beer seller and a medical practitioner, that wouldn't be unusual in a property that size. In theory you could have multiple people living in a single premises. If the beer seller was only making use of a few rooms on the ground floor for his business and living accommodation, he would have had a similar amount of rooms on the first storey that he supplemented his income with each week, by renting out (or vice versa, maybe the doctor rented rooms to the beer seller).