Wood Street and Nelson Street

[Cliff Ton 10,488]

Digging around with family history again, and I've come across relatives who lived in Wood Street, Basford and Nelson Street, Basford around the 1880s

Neither of those roads seem to exist now, and I've looked around on the Old Maps site but can't see them (although there still is an Elson Street in Basford)

If you Google them, they both come up in references to someone else's family history, but it doesn't tell you where they were

[mick2me 3,033]

Isn't there a Nelson Street Bulwell?

[Cliff Ton 10,488]

I don't know the area well so maybe someone can confirm that, but it doesn't show up on Google or Bing Maps

But they both show a Nelson Street in Long Eaton, and Bing - but not Google - shows a Nelson Street in the old Sneinton Market area

[Cliff Ton 10,488]

I'm bumping this because I still haven't discovered where Wood Street was in Basford, and it seems half my ancestors lived there in the 1860s/70s. So I'm still open to offers.

Also

I've come up with somebody's address described as "Pump Street, St Mary" which I assume means it was somewhere around St Mary's church in the Lace Market in the 1850s, but so far I haven't been able to find it

[katyjay 5,091]

I think the St Mary address was actually the parish, which covered quite a bit of Nottingham.

[littlebro 234]

I've come up with somebody's address described as "Pump Street, St Mary" which I assume means it was somewhere around St Mary's church in the Lace Market in the 1850s, but so far I haven't been able to find it

Pump Street was off Platt Street,

Platt Street was off Meynell Street,

Meynell Street was off Cross Street,

Cross Street was off Beck Street - which largely still exists.

So I think you should be looking in the north part of the Lace Market.

I hope this helps

[taxi ray 170]

On a copy of an o.s. map from 1899, Pump street is where littiebro says, I would place it roughly where the Post office sorting office was on Lower Parliament Street. It looks like Platt street became part of Lower Parliament Street as it seems to follow a similar route.

[Cliff Ton 10,488]

Thanks for the answers to the Pump Street query. At least that one's solved.

Now, if anybody can discover Wood Street, Basford....................

[mick2me 3,033]

I take it Pump Street St Mary iin the City is what you seek?

Are you able to post a copy of the map Ray?

(Digital camera - upload to photobucket?)

[Cliff Ton 10,488]

I take it Pump Street St Mary iin the City is what you seek?

Are you able to post a copy of the map Ray?

A copy of such a map would be useful, because I've just looked on the Old Maps site and their 1901 large-scale version doesn't show Pump Street.

I can find Beck Street, Cross Street and Meynall Street, but there's no more detail than that. And Meynall Street hardly looks big enough to have a Platt Street and a Pump Street off it.

[taxi ray 170]

I have done a quick copy using my phone.

http://s570.photobucket.com/albums/ss147/taxiray/?action=view&current=16072011228.jpg

[Cliff Ton 10,488]

thanks for that.

It was there on the one I was looking at......I just wasn't looking in the right place!