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            No wonder I'm a confused sort of man, I wasn't sure what street I was growing up in. If you look closely you'll see that there are two street signs, the original, Victoria Street, and the new (only ever known by me) Cardwell Street in Northwood, Stoke-on-Trent.
Number 6, the middle of what remains of this terrace, was the place of my birth and home until I was 21 and the house was sold following the death of my father, Eric Sheldon. We had the benefit of a large front bedroom over the entry and a small box room above it at the rear but otherwise it was a typical terraced house with quarry tiled flooring downstairs, lean to kitchen, outside toilet and coal hut in the back yard, which was quite large by the standards of normal back to back terraces of many neighbourhoods.
During my childhood number 4 was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bates and their slightly yappy Pembroke Corgi. Number 8 belonged to Mrs. Johnson (possibly Johnstone) who passed away in the house when I was a youngster, it was then home to a woman, and her children, who we never got on with and I can't recall her names.
The large house in the foreground was home to Mr. and Mrs. Eggington and their sons Jim and Eric. I don't live in the area any longer but I believe Jim still lives there.
I remember it said that the rear entrance to number 8, which was part way down the entry behind the black gate was used for a small scale illicit betting scheme.
The terrace, which probably dates back to the 1850's when the series of streets on this side of Keelings Road (formerly Lane) were developed, used to extend further down the street but was punctuated, a few houses down, by the entrance to a detached house that sat back off the street.
Our back yard overlooked a chicken farm which ran along the back of the terrace up to that detached house, an unusual sight amongst terraced housing I would say but Northwood was an unusual settlement.
This one street had two public houses, a separate off licence, Co-op store, hairdressers and a couple of small shops. One of the pubs, The Holly Bush, which sat opposite to our house, was once a vicarage, again very Northwood.
The area from which Northwood was founded existed back in the late eighteenth century and was later developed by William Ridgway in and around the early 1830's and adipted the name Northwood by 1832 by which time it wa said "to have been changed from a rude and demoralized part of Hanley into a beautiful, cleanly, well-ordered hamlet".
   

Taken in: UK / England / Hanley (show map)

Taken on: December 28, 2023

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