Thursday, 15 July 2021

Lost and forgotten Streets of Salford Nu 3 .......... Clowes Street

Of the threes streets that stretch from Chapel Street down to the river Clowes Street has fared the worst.

Clowes Street, 2016
True, at the bottom there are some new blocks of flats overlooking the Irwell but the rest is at present a plot of open land waiting development on one side and a car park on the other.

Back in 1850 there were a shed load of properties including some closed courts, the Barley Sheaf pub and the Eagle Foundry.

And the occupations of the street included, a book keeper, beer retailers, skewer maker, button turner, hat box maker and engineer along with a smallware manufacture and Stiffener.

That said not everyone seemed worthy of a mention on the street directory, and quite a few houses are not listed.

Added to which there is the fascinating fact that nine people are recorded at number 21.  All of were male and single.

And as I promised yesterday in the fullness of time I will go looking for the census returns to find out more about Peter Pennington, bookkeeper, Thomas Schofield , beer retailer, Henry Sutcliffe, button turner.

Clowes Street, 1849
Of course nothing stays the same, and that open space will be developed. I might even check out the planning applications to see what will take the place of those small back to backs and closed courts.

Location; Salford 3

Pictures; Clowes Street, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson and in 1849 from the OS for Manchester & Salford, 1842-49 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/

5 comments:

  1. Thanks Andrew,very interesting. I love the occupations of the occupants. I have collected a list of nearly 300 occupations for the people of Angel Meadow around 1881

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  2. Great to read your post. I've been doing some family research recently and discovered that my great-great-grandmother was a "servant" in 1871 at the Barley Sheaf on Clowes Street; the “licenced victualler” at that time looks to be an “Alfred Newton”.

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  3. Hopefully you have access to the ancestry site - this is the entry for my great-great-grandmother (Fanny Hyatt) in the 1871 census; https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7619/images/LANRG10_4019_4021-0485?pId=17642477.

    Later she went to live is Beswick-cum-Bradford and from 1901 could be found living with her husband (Alfred Lantsberry) and 5 children at the School House/Board School on Holland Street, Miles Platting. One of her sons; Walter Caleb, went on to become a research assistant with Ernest Rutherford and Hans Geiger.

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