[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by katex

No, haven't realised it yet Retlaw ...
What I was puzzled about is that in the 1851 census (as recorded by yerself), the Railway was No. 45 Blackburn Road (not street) .. now 84-86. Did they change them ? Must have confused the Post Office..

That Kendall guy had been an Inn Keeper for many years .. he seemed to have a place in 1824 on Lower Fold .. was this on the Bull Bridge area ?

Thats where a lot of people fall down when they read the census returns, they take the number in the left hand column as the house number, WRONG, read all the writing on the page, that number is the number of places on his route in that area.
Houses and properties did not have numbers in those days, not until 1861. So if in 1841 there were 60 properties in that census takers patch, and at the next census after 10 years of building there could then be double the number of properties in that patch.

Look at Blackburn Rd and any other area as it ws in those years, not as it looks today, read the preamble at the start of each census section, you will learn a lot.
Streets became Roads, Areas and Wards changed,
Postmen in 1841/51 didn't need house numbers, they knew who was who and where they lived. How many people received mail in those days anyway.

You've already answerd the question, it was the SPREAD EAGLE, facing the bottom of EAGLE St. Thats looking South.
Look at the buildings in Warner St, the size of the stone blocks, those were built some time before 1841, then compare the building blocks in other streets and see the difference in stone sizes and surface finish, they change every few years.

Retlaw.