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From: "Geoff Pearson" <>
Subject: Re: A Westminster Tavern - which one?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:38:43 -0000
References: <38hd6jF5me1jlU1@individual.net> <uANUd.2228$Pl5.1583@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net> <1109639961snz@ellson.demon.co.uk> <1nl72111mgg741p4ksoeq6fjg25gfgj47o@4ax.com>


"Don Aitken" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Tue, 01 Mar 05 01:19:21 GMT, (Charles
> Ellson) wrote:
>
>>In article <uANUd.2228$>
>> "Data Junkie" writes:
>>
>>> "Geoff Pearson" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>> > The 1861 census on 1837 Online revealed yesterday that my long-lost
>>> > step-gggrandmother Georgiana Shacklady was a barmaid (with her sister
>>> > Mary
>>> > Ann ) at 21-22 Bridge Street Westminster, which I guess is Westminster
>>> > Bridge so she would have been just across the road from the newly
>>> > completed
>>> > Houses of Parliament. Does anyone know how to work out what the
>>> > tavern was
>>> > called?
>>>
>>> The 1852 London Post Office Directory shows ...
>>>
>>> Bridge Street, Westminster
>>>
>>> 21 & 22 Horse Shoe & Magpie (Tavern) - Painter, William.
>>>
>>> By the 1865 edition the address is no longer listed - in fact numbers
>>> above 12 have disappeared.
>>>
>>Depending on direction of count and width/location of frontages -
>>widening or construction of Parliament Street, Canon Row or Victoria
>>Embankment ?
>
> Probably the construction of the Embankment, which was around 1863.
>
> --
> Don Aitken
>
> Mail to the addresses given in the headers is no longer being
> read. To mail me, substitute "clara.co.uk" for "freeuk.com".


Thanks to all - my mother and uncle - who were born just up the road from
there will be delighted with this kind of news.


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