History hasn’t been kind to Little Ancoats Street.
It is one of those very narrow streets, which has never warranted much in the way of official recognition.
It once stretched from Dean Street, across Newton Street, and almost but not quite running out on to Lever Street.
Today the bit from Dean Street to Newton Street has vanished under a block of new build which was constructed in the last few years, and which wiped out the Lord Nelson pub, which was doing the business of serving beer and good cheer from at least 1841.
In that year the landlord was a Robert Walker, and a decade later it was run by a Mary Ann Belshaw and judging by the occupants listed in the Rate Books it appears to have changed hands frequently.
As for Little Ancoats Street, it remains a bit of an enigma. It shows up on maps of the early 1790s, but as yet there are no listings for who resided there in the directories, nor as yet can I find any entry in the census returns.
And that is slightly odd given that the southern side of the street consisted of residential properties during the middle of the 19th century.
Their absence from the street directories may just be because they were not worthy of inclusion, but they should appear in the census records, especially given that the surrounding streets are all included.
The stretch of Great Ancoats Street, and Ancoats Street which were either side of our street are there in the official records but not ours.
That said some of the buildings along the part of Little Ancoats Street from Little Lever Street may be the original residential properties shown on the maps of the 1840s and 50s, which may be as close as we get to their inhabitants.
But in time and widening the search I am sure the mystery of who lived in them will be revealed.
All of which leaves me with the Lord Nelson, which was demolished in 2010. That building only dated from 1895, and while there is a suggestion that the original dates from 1830, the first reference I have is 1841.
Nor have the records revealed any details of either Mr. Walker or Ms Belshaw, but I shall keep looking.
Location; Little Ancoats Street,
Pictures; Little Ancoats Street, 2019, from the collection of Richard Hector Jones, and in 1851, from Adshead’s map of Manchester 1851 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
*Lost Manchester Streets, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=Lost+Manchester+Streets
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| Little Ancoats Street from Newton Street, 2019 |
It once stretched from Dean Street, across Newton Street, and almost but not quite running out on to Lever Street.
Today the bit from Dean Street to Newton Street has vanished under a block of new build which was constructed in the last few years, and which wiped out the Lord Nelson pub, which was doing the business of serving beer and good cheer from at least 1841.
In that year the landlord was a Robert Walker, and a decade later it was run by a Mary Ann Belshaw and judging by the occupants listed in the Rate Books it appears to have changed hands frequently.
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| Little Ancoats Street from Little Lever Street, 2019 |
And that is slightly odd given that the southern side of the street consisted of residential properties during the middle of the 19th century.
Their absence from the street directories may just be because they were not worthy of inclusion, but they should appear in the census records, especially given that the surrounding streets are all included.
The stretch of Great Ancoats Street, and Ancoats Street which were either side of our street are there in the official records but not ours.
That said some of the buildings along the part of Little Ancoats Street from Little Lever Street may be the original residential properties shown on the maps of the 1840s and 50s, which may be as close as we get to their inhabitants.
But in time and widening the search I am sure the mystery of who lived in them will be revealed.
All of which leaves me with the Lord Nelson, which was demolished in 2010. That building only dated from 1895, and while there is a suggestion that the original dates from 1830, the first reference I have is 1841.
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| Little Ancoats Street, 1851 |
Location; Little Ancoats Street,
Pictures; Little Ancoats Street, 2019, from the collection of Richard Hector Jones, and in 1851, from Adshead’s map of Manchester 1851 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
*Lost Manchester Streets, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=Lost+Manchester+Streets
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