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Dark Angel, what did you mean by this comment - "The houses built as Wainmans Terrace could be seen all around Nottingham and districts"? How do you know this? Where did you get the info about Coal Merchants? Your mention of Matthew Mann at 3 Dunstan Street particularly made me thing about that address. Before now I had read/interpreted the 1901 Census for the Drings as living at 3 Dunstan Street and the Wilsons at 13 Wainsman Terrace. Just this now I have re-visited the census images for the few pages for Dunstan Street and I can now see that Matthew Mann is

I am reading this page daily waiting for replies to get to bottom our mystery so at least one person is still interested. I have found an excellent website that overlays modern maps with various maps at different scales at different time periods. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=52.96320&lon=-1.07327&layers=168&b=5 Type in Dunstan Street and select 25 inch OS Map 1892-1914. The detail on this particular map is excellent. It looks like the sheet for the Netherfield area was surveyed circa 1900. No text identifying Wainmans Ter

Are the Co-op buildings you refer to where Hawks Cycles is?

Wainmans is clearer on the adjacent pages.

For those not seen it here is my facebook post on the Gedling Village Local History & Preservation Society facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1908689169455273/permalink/2645750662415783/?comment_id=2647899728867543 A week or so ago when I posted this I believed that Wainsman Terrace was at number 1 Dunstan Street. I am now not so sure.

Thanks for joining in TBI. I have just checked the 1901 Census and there are 14 addresses on Dennis Street. All are even numbered from number 2 through to number 28 so that accounts for all 14 of the properties you can see on CT's map on page 3 of this thread.

Dark Angel your interest is appreciated and it is bugging me too. My interpretation has been that Wainmans was not necessarily a person but rather the name alludes to the occupation. A Wainman is wagon driver and given a lot of the housing was built for the railway workers I assumed this made sense. Just as likely that the terrace was named after a specific person I guess.

Good point Cliff Ton I will bear that in mind. I have been looking at the census records several pages either side of Dunstan Street for 1901 and 1911 and Wainmans Terrace isn't on 1911 census. My current favoured theory is that it gets renamed/rebuilt as Devonshire Cottages. I have noted from google street view images that the building on the corner of Dunstan Street and Victoria Steet (currently Nevs off license) has a date of 1886 adorned on it. https://goo.gl/maps/LUkqLHtHNdi42Gbz5 Looking at OS maps from circa 1900, it certainly seems this end of Dunstan Str

Thanks for your comments loopylugs. You mention a WW1 bomb and I recall reading about that elsewhere so checked around on the internet a bit this afternoon. It turns out in 1916 a Zeppelin dropped bombs all along the railway between Newark and central Nottingham. All of Nottingham sounded the air raid sirens and nearly everyone correctly ensured there was a blackout. The exception being Midland Railway, who kept all their lighting on. A fatal mistake. One of the many bombs that hit the area was one on the corner of Dunstan Street and Cross Street. Six homes were damaged or destroyed and 3 peop

CliffTon, Devonshire cottages are on the 1939 register.

Dark Angel, that is indeed the correct Dring family. Harry and Pollys daughter-in-law was the sister of my fiancees grandmother.

Thanks DavidW. I think I came across that on the BritishNewspapers website but the text was all garbled but could see what the text was alluding to. Its good to see confirmation of 14 dwellings as you can see about that many on the 1901 Census. Incidentally I think the 1901 Census was done in March and then come July the properties were up for auction. Maybe all residents were told to clear off. Maybe it was renamed or demolished after that point. There is no mention of Wainmans Terrace in the 1911 census or the 1939 register.

Thanks for your feed back Cliff Ton. Indeed I do wonder if that courtyard is where Wainsmans Terrace was.

Hi, I hope someone can help. I am researching my fiancees family history and the Dring and Wilson households that according to the 1901 Census lived on Dunstan Street. The Drings lived at No.3 Dunstan Street and the Wilsons at what looks like (can't read census handwriting very well) number 13 Wainsmans Terrace which is listed as Dunstan Street. There are several addresses at Wainsmans Terrace and appear to be the first building on Dunstan Street and is listed before number 3 Dunstan Street. There is no number 1 Dunstan Street on any census records I think. I have looke