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Originally Posted by blackburnlad
Agree there, Blackburnlad, and already mentioned this to Retlaw to see where an A.Westwell was registered in 1925.
Will go and verify this with camera, as neutral at the moment, but do trust Retlaw's word nevertheless.
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Just a thought katex, but like I have mentioned in another comment, the Barretts directories were only issued once every 3 - 4 years. So there is always the possibility that A. Westwell may have moved within those 3 years or so. So instead of looking for him in just the 1925 Burgess Roll, you would be better looking a couple of years either side of that too, plus having a look at the adjoining properties to see if they correspond with the 1925 Barrett's. I mean one thing we do know for certain, is that Marquis Street and (possibly) a few properties either side of it were imminently going to be demolished to create space for the construction of Broadway (opened in 1936, so construction probably started a few years earlier), so the people in those nearby properties would no doubt have been on the move. The photo of the derelict and abandoned Slater's Arms circa 1930 being an example of that.