Devonshire Road, Hastings

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Sharaz
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Devonshire Road, Hastings

Postby Sharaz » Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:23 pm

Good Afternoon Everyone,
Is there anyone who knows when the houses in Devonshire Road Hastings were built, my partner thinks before 1820, but I don't think they are that old....Regards

whiffler
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Re: Devonshire Road, Hastings

Postby whiffler » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:27 pm

From old-maps - an OS site

1873 - DR side of cricket ground empty plots, station approach to waterworks (approx Morrisons)

1875 }
1878 }

1899 - DR complete both sides, also Earl/Mann Streets bridge from South Terrace over railway

See also - http://hastingschronicle.net/archives/t ... velopment/

also from chronicle archive ...

1885 March – The new bridge over the railway, connecting South Terrace to the new Priory Avenue, came into use, and opened up the Avenue area for development. The iron lattice girder bridge had two spans, one 120 feet long, the other 50 feet. It had a steep gradient of one in seven-and-a-half at the south end to lift it over the railway sidings. It had been built and paid for by the Cornwallis Estate trustees, who gave it (free of charge) to Hastings Council that September.


For info about cricket ground etc - http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/ ... -1-7852083

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Re: Devonshire Road, Hastings

Postby Richard » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:12 am

Roads cost money and don't exist without a reason, before the railway brought visitors into Town only a few major roads existed in the area.
Following the expansion of Hastings in the 1870's and 80's, when there was a lot of 'infill', it makes some sense to believe that workers cottages and boarding houses would spring up to accomodate crowds brought in by trains, as well as those labourers working on the railways, as seen along Devonshire Road, with its marked contrast between large blocky houses on the south and small terraced cottages on the north side.

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Re: Devonshire Road, Hastings

Postby ColinL » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:01 pm

Building work was going on in 1877 as this extract from the Hastings Observer 'Flotsam & Jetsam' article of 8 December describes

" Not a few complaints are being made in Hastings just now about the state of the roads. But if people want to know what mud is ........(faint words) they really should visit the neighbourhood of Devonshire Road. ------------------------- Remonstrate with the property owners who are building and with a smile that is child-like and bland, they will reply 'Oh, every place is dirty just now'
Just so, but this is a perdition of mud, a Hades of filth, a disgrace to the whole town"

It seems that a lot of the properties were being built at around that time as the attached item from the Hastings Observer a year before the above complaint, concerning an accident involving a lad falling from scaffolding describes

Some houses were already occupied and the owners advertising for staff as in the attached advertisement
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Re: Devonshire Road, Hastings

Postby ColinL » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:51 pm

Typical 1830s house architecture can be seen in Exmouth Place leading up to Hastings West Hill. Others are on Pelham Crescent and some on Marine Parade. Some will have bow windows. There are some smaller cottages in Croft Road on the south side.


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