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From: "diana harding" <>
Subject: MOUNCHER and DROVER 1854
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:22:16 +0100


A different sort of entry in the Weekly Minutes of the House of Industry

14 Sep 1854 - the Guardians decided to draw the attention of the Local
Board of Health at Cowes [i.e. the then local authority running the town]
to a court at Woodbine Place in West Cowes, the property of William
MOUNCHER of Newport, which was in a state injurious to health, a nuisance
to the neighbourhood caused by the overflow into a ditch of the privies of
the cottages - property of MOUNCHER and Messrs DROVER of Cowes.

IWRO REF: H/ZO/49

Coincidentally I did some research several years ago for the owner of one
of the houses to establish when these 4 cottages known as Woodbine Place
were built (they still exist near the bottom of Park Road which was
formerly known as Mount Pleasant Road) and was able to establish that they
were built between 10 August and 9 November 1825 and were occupied by
tenants sometime after 18 January 1826. William MOUNCHER is at one of
them - then called 5 Park Road in the 1861 Census. The Messrs DROVER I
think had the stables and yard in behind them.


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