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Paradise Street, Tunstall
The development of Paradise Street:
"Specially noteworthy are the two terraces,
each of 20 houses, which form the south side of Paradise Street and the
north side of Piccadilly Street at the west end of Tower Square. They were
built in 1821 by the Tunstall Building Society which had been formed in
1816 with 32 members, many of them working potters.
The houses may be fairly
taken as representative of the local housing of the time. Each dwelling
contains a front and a back room on each of the two floors with a privy
and an ashpit in the diminutive walled yard at the rear. Wash-houses or
sculleries appear to have been added beyond the back doors of many of the
houses at a later date. A narrow cobbled footway runs between the yards of
the two terraces and is crossed by a passage entered through an archway in
the centre of each row"
From: A History of the
County of Stafford: Volume 8 (1963),
- most of
these houses were demolished in the 1980's when the majority of Paradise
and Piccadilly Streets were cleared for a new small housing estate to be
built -
Google Maps 2008
shows how Paradise and Piccadilly Streets were mostly demolished to make
way for the new housing at the bottom left
Paradise St., Tunstall (Potteries Museum
and Art Gallery)
This example is a
working-class house in the Tunstall. Situated in Paradise Street, and
built in 1821, having
two rooms downstairs and two rooms upstairs.
Paradise Street as a whole,
however, had a number of shops and in consequence several dealers and
traders together with their employees were living there. Even so its
residents included a number of labourers, miners and beer sellers. In
total there were 177 residents in the street on census day 1881 living in
28 houses (seven properties - possibly lock-up shops - appear to have been
unoccupied), giving an average density of 6.3 persons per house. Most of Paradise
Street was demolished in the mid 1980s.
David Alan Gatley - Staffordshire University
1898 OS map showing Paradise Street,
Tunstall
"Specially noteworthy are
the two terraces, each of 20 houses, which form the south side of
Paradise Street and the north side of Piccadilly Street at the west
end of Tower Square"
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