Hi, I was wondering if anybody knows - or can find out - when Back Beckwith Street was built. My ancestors lived there in 1851 but it didn't exist in 1841. I would love to visit the archives, but I am unemployed and living in Hertfordshire, so it's just an impossibility

Thanks

Hi Julie.
Are you sure it is back beckwith street ?

I can't say when it was built,

1874 ish Map

Back Beckwith St is not in the 1843 Mortimer & Harwood Street Directory, Beckwith St is, so, narrows it down a bit.

Looks like it had been renamed by the 1950s
Payson Street


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The 1911 census has Payson St recorded, Back Beckwith St still shows on the 1900 ish Map.

good fine Bertieone I have the 1909 map and your right its now Payson st