Napoleon Street

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

I wonder just when the Napoleon St name came into being. This road was a turnpike and probably did not have a name such as we know when the turnpike was laid down ( although it probably was along the line of an existing road) It would be unusual for the name of an enemy to be used as a street name, and it is not surprising that it was changed to something else.

I have just done a quick flip through the BMD records on the Lancashire Online Parish Clerk site for All Saints parish, Clayton. The earliest mention of Napoleon Street I can find is 1865, the latest 1895.

I wonder if the street name actually is in honour not of Bonaparte, but of Louis Napoeon, later Napoleon III, who was Emperor of France at the time of the Crimean War.

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[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by susie123

I wonder if the street name actually is in honour not of Bonaparte, but of Louis Napoeon, later Napoleon III, who was Emperor of France at the time of the Crimean War.

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That's more like it. Boney's nephew spent alot of time in Southport and there is some evidence that the post-1848 Paris rebuilding - with it's wide boulevards and splendid shops - was based in part on Lord Street, Southport.

Which makes me think.....suppose that instead of staying by the seaside. the last Emperor of France had resided 35 miles east...instead of the Champs Elysees, there could be Blackburn Rd, Paris...instead of Wallace fountains, Ossy passoirs.... instead of the Centre George Pompidou, the Centre Peter Britcliffe...... instead of the Eiffel Tower..Le Panopticon d'Accy.....

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

That's more like it. Boney's nephew spent alot of time in Southport and there is some evidence that the post-1848 Paris rebuilding - with it's wide boulevards and splendid shops - was based in part on Lord Street, Southport.

Which makes me think.....suppose that instead of staying by the seaside. the last Emperor of France had resided 35 miles east...instead of the Champs Elysees, there could be Blackburn Rd, Paris...instead of Wallace fountains, Ossy passoirs.... instead of the Centre George Pompidou, the Centre Peter Britcliffe...... instead of the Eiffel Tower..Le Panopticon d'Accy.....

Spot on Tealeaf, the Southport connection must have been at the back of my mind when I thought of the connection.

I like your flight of fancy for Accy as well...!

[Bob Dobson]

Good lateral thinking Tealeaf.....l'eglise de Church.

[rtbarton]

My g-grandfather's sister married a William Whittaker and they lived at 73 Napoleon Street Clayton-le-Moors, in 1881.

[rtbarton]

Just been looking at the Census for 1891 - it mentions Frank Street (1 house), which is still there, coming off Whalley Rd.

[rtbarton]

I've checked the 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses for Napoleon Street.

No great changes between 1881 & 91, but between 1891 and 1901 Napoleon Street became (part of?) Whalley Rd, the odd numbers became the even numbers and the direction was reversed.

I've found the following matches :-

1 Napoleon Street = 170 Whalley Rd, 3 = 168, 27 = 144, 35 = 134, 45 = 124, 61-63 = 108-102, 71 = 98, 85 = 84, 93&95 = 76&74, 99 = 70, 105 = 64, 113 = 56, 155 = 12. Moorfield House = 8 Whalley Rd.


Jubilee St is between 129(40?) & 131(36/38)

DISCLAIMER - House numbers can go down as well as up and other Whalley Roads are available.