Other streets in Brandon

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George Street

John Basham has researched this street … “George Street has had a variety of names…

•  Before the enclosure of Brandon in 1809 it had houses along the north side and was warren to the south.  It may have been called Low Street or Lower Street before this.
• At enclosure it was allotted as a private road, Harriet and Caroline Currey received some of the warren on the corner where the George was situated.
• By 1838 it was called the White Lion Inn, owned by Thomas Bulger and occupied by Thomas Appleyard and Thomas Jacob.
• In the 1841 census there is a street called White Lion Street and Thomas Jacobs is an innkeeper aged 45 living with Elizabeth 40, Elizabeth aged 25, Eliza a dressmaker aged 20, Henry 18, a shoemaker, and Maria aged 16.
• George Street is still called White Lion Street in a deed of 1871.

Thetford Road

According to 1883 Kelly’s Directory:

• Sarah Ann COOK – baker
• Thomas CULLINGFORD – beer
• William LINGWOOD – tailor
• Julia MOUNT – lime whiting manufacturer
• Alfred SNARE – nurseryman
• Rev. Thomas Henry LOVE – Wesleyan
• John SNARE
• Allen & Burton – drapers & grocers
• Charles Walter CALVER – man at gas works
• Henry William EDWARDS – butcher
• James FIELD – Fox & Hounds – whiting manufacturer
• Samuel & Palmer LINGWOOD – furriers & skin merchants
• Betsy PALMER – shopkeeper
• John VALE – shoemaker
• Robert John SNARE – wholesale & export manufacturer of gun flints & ornamental flint for building purposes

Bury Road

According to 1883 Kelly’s Directory:

• Miss BOUGHEN
• Frederick RAE
• William ROUGHT (furrier, skin merchant, dresser & dealer – wholesale)
• Elizabeth SOUTHWELL – shopkeeper

 

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