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industryarch

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1921 map shows 16 houses on one side only
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Noah

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If 18 is the property of interest then the Harold Baker there in 1939 married Phyllis B M Wooldridge July-Sept 1935 Stafford 6b 40
 

Entropy

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If 18 is the property of interest then the Harold Baker there in 1939 married Phyllis B M Wooldridge July-Sept 1935 Stafford 6b 40

This just brilliant research! I wonder if this couple were the first occupiers of the house?

Thank you everyone on your superb local knowlede of "the colony", Number 18 is the property in question as it is now Sold STC :D :D :D and from looking att he map from @industryarch it sits on the section labelled L.B. - Not sure what this means?

From looking at the rear of the houses along this stretch, they all seem to have a roof repair in the exact same spot. Just above the 3rd bedroom window. Plans are already afoot to update and make improvements to the house too.
 

industryarch

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This just brilliant research! I wonder if this couple were the first occupiers of the house?

Thank you everyone on your superb local knowlede of "the colony", Number 18 is the property in question as it is now Sold STC :D :D :D and from looking att he map from @industryarch it sits on the section labelled L.B. - Not sure what this means?

From looking at the rear of the houses along this stretch, they all seem to have a roof repair in the exact same spot. Just above the 3rd bedroom window. Plans are already afoot to update and make improvements to the house too.
LB is letter box
 

Noah

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I wonder if this couple were the first occupiers of the house?

Does anyone know when these houses were built? It would be reasonable to assume that they moved there sometime between September 1935 when they were married and 29 September 1939 when the 1939 Register survey was carried out. The electoral registers for each year should tell you who was in the house, but Stafford's don't seem to be on line so it means wading through them at the County Records Office.

They may not have lived there that long. Looking at Baker births with the mother's maiden name Wooldridge, there are three in a reaaonable timescale;
Michael Baker Jan-Mar 1938 Stafford 6b 15 (definitely ours, actual dob 15 Jan 1938 revealed by poor redaction on the 1939 Register)
Richard Baker April-June 1944 Wellington 6a 1377
Christine Baker July-Sept 1946 Burton 9b 127
It would seem unlikely for there to be many Baker/Wooldridge marriages but as well as our Harold & Phyllis, a Harold C Baker married a Matilda A Wooldridge in Guilford in 1934 and a Horace E Baker married a Barbara L Wooldridge in Dudley in 1938 so we cannot be sure whose children Richard & Christine were without purchasing birth certificates.

Phyllis' full name was Phyllis Barbara Mary Wooldridge and she was born is Stafford in 1911 -
Staffordshire Advertiser 28 September 1935
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Entropy

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What a brilliant report on the Colony and the area around Forebridge. I didnt realise how historically significant that particular area of the town is, especially for settlement and developments.

What is clear is that the houses along Salt Avenue certainly the one I am interested in was built sometime between 1925 & 1935 when the Bakers moved in, or so it would seem?

Through reading through the report from @ben0239 it is unclear as to who build them? Was it the Siemens company relocating further employees from their London factory, or was it the council who built them?

I would imagine one I have the site survey and the land registary report I will find out?

Everyones level of interest in this topic is just brilliant, thank you again for contributing :)
 
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