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I am curious to know the history and origin of the row of stone terraced cottages at the bottom of Empingham Road. These were clearly built as a piece with finials on the roof tops of each end property. Can any reader help? NF This row of houses was originally named Mount Pleasant. When it was built (probably in the 1870s) it undoubtedly had a very pleasant outlook, being on a slight rise on the edge of the town looking out to the north. Leo has not yet been able to ascertain who built it and why but we discovered that No 26 (which the questioner used to own) was occupied for many years by Thomas Glitherow. Thomas was the son of an agricultural labourer who lived in Protection Yard on Scotgate. Thomas became a joiner and carpenter and may have moved into Mount Pleasant when he married in 1873. He brought up five children there; and one of his sons, Thomas William Glitherow, a wheelwright, lived next door at No 24 for a while. Thomas died at the age of 88yrs in 1935. In 1939 the Glitherow family were still living in this same row of cottages. The Mount Pleasant cottages were renumbered as Empingham Road in the early 20thC but the name can still be seen on Number 20. Why are Bentley Street, Stanley Street and Vine Street so called? Were they named after Stamford luminaries around 1900 or so when they were built? AR The Torkington family sold off their former brickyard to Mr J. F. Bentley who began building at the bottom end of Bentley Street. By 1879 Thomas Woolston was building houses there. Can any reader shed light on the naming of Stanley Street or Vine Street? The first Council houses J.F questioned whether we were right when we said that the first council houses were built in the 1930s in Melbourne Road because, “The houses in Cliff Road, which were named after the co-founder of Williamson Cliff’s brickyard, were among the first to be built, and before 1930. My parents moved there during the 1920s and were not the first occupants.” The Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 (The Addison Act) encouraged councils to build houses with the help of generous grants. Stamford began to re-house people living in sub standard houses. Cliff Road was certainly one of the earliest developments built in 1921 and Melbourne Road was built at about the same time, so dating them to the 1930s was not correct. More aeroplane accidents A reader told us of another local air accident. A Vickers Valiant took off from Wittering on August 12th 1960. Three minutes later it crashed on the Spanhoe airfield near Harringworth and burst into flames. All the five crew were killed. The Vulcan which we mentioned last month crashed at Burley on the Hill about 7 miles north-west of Stamford on January 30th 1968. D.W sent us more information, “There was a fire alert in one of the engines and after two explosions the pilot gave orders to bale out. The pilots survived but the crew died. Can you imagine a Vulcan (wing-span 111ft.) on fire cart-wheeling into the ground? The aircraft came down next to Cow Close Farm. There is still evidence of the impact in the field.” |
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