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This Picture isnt ilchester Square but i fairly
good idea of what it may have looked like,
ive searched for a picture but just can not find any.

So this may be the next best thing....

the dock cottages were called the queens buildings, read more here

Clicky

Good little find there

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50801

Quote from the above site; found by Jonno


In order to provide accommodation for the various workmen connected with the warehouses, the company have built a number of airy, well-lighted, and well-ventilated dwellings at the junction of Ilchester-road and Stuart-street. They are sixty in number, and have an abundant supply of pure water, with all the modern and most approved conveniences (some of them being perfectly unique) for sanitary purposes: they are built on the Scotch principle of having flats of four or five stories, one over another; and a good kitchen and two small bed-rooms are allotted to each family.

Dated 1848

Here's what is probably a rare pic, showing the Dock Cottages & Ilchester Square under construction.

Superb picture ! The Dock Cottages look er.. grim to say the least. Moving into the new Ilchester Square flats must have been the best thing in those residents lives.

The little details are fascinating. The 18" high discoloured ring at the base of the gas lamp - thanks to the local pooch's.
The (then) standard site fence round the new flats made out of old sheets of corrugated iron etc. The flags painted on the old buildings. A good find Chris.

Fantastic pic Chris
I will have to get my uncle to try and give it some
direction from where the picture was taken.

As there seems to be a "Normal" Brick Building to the right
on the picture with the wooden fence.

Thanks for sharing
Best picture ive seen yet

Great pic Chris .I have a feeling that the picture was taken from the corner of Townsend and Stanley street as from the maps the cottages ran from left to right across to what we know as Ilchester street now.

Brilliant picture Chris, cheers

what do you think?







From this image, it looks like they run perpendicular with Ilchester Road.



Plus, the road is sloping downwards, left to right.

Humm its a tough one..

I think it might be the next road down to be honest.

And thats even if the houses are the same ones since then?
However, the roads/kerbs will be pretty much the same.

I'm not curb crawling to satisfy you joe

The next street up is almost at the church?

The next one DOWN Mark.