Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
Fabulous! Now we can cofirm who he isn't!
I wonder if you know anything about the Nicholas from Wolverhampton. He is probably a generation or two too early, but he has the right name...
Keep up the good work.
"The Great Fire of 1590
The fire began in Barn Street (Salop Street) and resulted in the destruction of 104 houses, 30 barns and a large quantity of grain. The fire lasted for five days and left nearly 700 people homeless. It is known that "Lindy-Lou's" was the Hand Inn, Tunwall Street and was owned by Sir Walter Leveson who received an annual rent of £2.17.4d from his tenant Nicholas Worthington. Little is known of the history of 44 Exchange Street. The second great fire in Wolverhampton's history began at about 4pm on September 10, 1696. Once again the fire started in Barn Street and within five hours 60 houses had been destroyed. The total cost of the damage was assessed at over £8500, a vast amount for the end of the seventeenth century. In September 1703 the inhabitants of Wolverhampton purchased a fire engine and twenty-four buckets for the water. The engine involved a simple box pump with a leather hose mounted on two wheels from which water was pumped out by a force of six men, three on each side. A similar engine was still in use over one hundred years later. The situation was further improved by the Town Improvement Act of 1814 which banned the use of thatched roofing, although in 1871 the last thatched building in Wolverhampton, a cottage in Canal Street (Broad Street), still stood.
VICTORIA STREET (City Centre)
In a Terrier of 1609, one Nicholas Worthington occupied a “common Inn called The Hand, in " Tunwall Street ". That ancient property is still there, but the street is today called Victoria Street. The upper part of Victoria Street was later named Cock Street , after the Cock Inn, and the lower part, between Bellcroft and Salop Street, was called Boblake . The street became Victoria Street after the visit to the town by Queen Victoria in 1866.
(Peter Hickman)
Chris Upton says that "in medieval times this was Tunwalle Street, sometimes wrongly associated with the fortifications the town never had. The name in fact refers to the Town Well, which lay just behind the Cock Inn".
(Frank Sharman) "
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/worthington/messages/1727.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|