Hi everyone.
I was up in Southwark (South London) yesterday looking around the area and trying to locate a few addresses that show up in my family on Census and Certs from 1880's onwards.
I found and photographed the house where my Grandfather was born in 1900. and I got to many of the roads..............however the other roads were either missing houses or simply don't exist in 2009.
I saw the Time Team programme a while back when they dug up a London playing field that had been the site of a road and houses in WW2. They had a 'bomb damage map'.
So where might I get something like that from ? This is to cover the Southwark area.
What was great was to see a massive mix of old places and new places. Indeed, the Church where my Great Grandparents were married in 1897 is now a Mosque ! The bombs all landed nearby and there were few left to actually attend the Church ! After the war the houses weren't rebuilt in an area and so the Church must have fallen into disuse - St Marks on Cobourg Road.
Thanks in advance.
Simon
I was up in Southwark (South London) yesterday looking around the area and trying to locate a few addresses that show up in my family on Census and Certs from 1880's onwards.
I found and photographed the house where my Grandfather was born in 1900. and I got to many of the roads..............however the other roads were either missing houses or simply don't exist in 2009.
I saw the Time Team programme a while back when they dug up a London playing field that had been the site of a road and houses in WW2. They had a 'bomb damage map'.
So where might I get something like that from ? This is to cover the Southwark area.
What was great was to see a massive mix of old places and new places. Indeed, the Church where my Great Grandparents were married in 1897 is now a Mosque ! The bombs all landed nearby and there were few left to actually attend the Church ! After the war the houses weren't rebuilt in an area and so the Church must have fallen into disuse - St Marks on Cobourg Road.
Thanks in advance.
Simon
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