Genealogy Chat

Hi Wendy If you're looking for Finsbury Street, the Local History unit at the library in Hull city center has got old maps from all sorts of eras. Jeanette x

I've often found them by googling. Only today I found an old map of Clerkenwell on the Old Bailey online site. nell

Alas, alas, there is a website that is gone. The brilliant website that Sarah quoted is (at least temporarily) unavailable. There is a book that used to be published by the LCC every twenty years or so that listed streets with their former names. Another way, if you had access to the relevant local studies library (and you thought the buildings were demolished, rather than the road merely changing name) would be to look in local directories for particular numbers, to see when they vanished. The library may well have specific information, photographs etc so it would be worth contacting them. If you don't know the name of the library, try this website www.familia.org.uk

If in London, there's a website dedicated to streets that have gone: http://members.aol(.)com/WHall95037/london.html (remove brackets) If somewhere else, local libraries often have detailed street maps through the years which might help. Sometimes streets are re-named, rather than destroyed. merry

Your local library will probably have old OS Maps - I know mine has them dating back to c1860 - these will show the streets that are no longer there. Not sure how you can find out when they were demolished, have you tried phoning the council? Sam x

Where can i find out where an old street once was, that has now been knocked down? And how can i find out when it was demolished? Thanks Wendy