Hello Jenny
by coincidence in the last few days on the Glamorgan Rootsweb list there has
been correspondence about various online mapping tools to find addresses. If
you are not on that list then
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html allows you to browse
the archives.
The first step is to locate the street, if you can. A number of local people
can advise you whether particular streets as a whole are likely to remain
more-or-less unchanged, or whether they were partly or wholly destroyed in
WW2 bombing, or redeveloped as part of various 'slum clearance' and other
schemes, the earliest of which seems to have been in the late 1870s, and
which reached their peak around late 1960s.
West Glamorgan Archives have various old maps of central Swansea for sale.
They also have a considerable collection of old Rate Books which show the
payments made by householders, street by street, so it can be possible to
establish when particular people lived at an address.
Central Swansea seems to have had plans to number each house in streets in
the centre of the town as early as the 1840s, but this may not have happened
until much later in some outlying areas. Once established, the numbering of
particular streets does not seem to have changed much. (Unlike Cardiff,
where some streets have been re-numbered several times, or even given
completely new names).
I should go ahead and give to the list addresses and dates for which those
addresses are known. You may be lucky and have someone send you a photo.
Jeff
Hello,
Am wondering if anyone can tell me if it is possible to find out the
history of houses and if they still exist?
I have the exact addresses of my grandparents and great grandparents
homes.
Thanking you
Jenny
(Australia)
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