Shelton and the Ridgway Family

Croston Street, Shelton

Location 5 on the index map

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On the 1852 Ward & Son plan of Pinfold Meadow Estate Norfolk, Chatham and Wellington Street are named. Croston Street is just marked as 'Street'.

The 1865 plan by R. Scrivener & Son shows a few houses at the Howard place end of Norfolk, Chatham and Wellington Street. Croston Street is named "Cross Street", but there are no houses built yet. One of the houses (photo below) has a date of 1869. The 1878 OS map shows 'Croston Street' and a full row of houses.

 

red brick - good quality but modest terraced houses
in Croston Street

1869 date in Croston Street

 

Croston Street joins Norfolk, Chatham and Wellington Street. The houses in Croston Street, Norfolk and Chatham Street are more modest than those in Wellington Street. 

The 1881 census lists occupations of Norfolk Street occupants as: potters handler, brickmaker, metal mounter, groom, butcher, labourer, tailor.

Those in Wellington Street (by then Wellesley Street) are generally of a different class: Clerk, contractors agent, exporter of earthenware, commercial traveller, grocer, school teacher.

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