Sand Area, Stramongate, Kendal

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Stramongate, Kendal
Surname/tag: Street_Study

A study of the 'Sand Area' side of Stramongate, Kendal.

The study includes the whole of the roughly triangular area formed with Stramongate Bridge, Sand Aire House and Melrose Place as its points.

The study area is bordered by the River Kent, Stramongate and New Road. The stretch of New Road bordering the area was formerly Rosemary Lane.

Back Lane once ran towards the River Kent from half-way along Rosemary Lane.

The study encompasses the following buildings which have their own pages:

Sand Aire House - the Georgian Building initially known as 'Sand Area House'

Lambrigg Terrace - built in 1891

Melrose Place - built in 1896

Properties on Stramongate

Yard 83 Stramongate:

No. 1

1891: John D Docker

1901: Daniel Robinson, Fish Hawker

No. 3

1891: Thomas Kendal

1901: William Hayes, Retired Railway Labourer

No. 5

1891: Anthony Tompson, Coal Merchant

1901: Mary Elizabeth Platter

No. 2

1891: Joseph Gudgeon, Boot Riveter

1901: Hannah Fisher

No. 4

1891: William Proctor. Carter

1901: William Proctor, General Labourer

No. 6

1891: James Metcalf. House Painter

1901: William Gudgeon, Bootmaker

No. 8

1891: James Graham, Labourer

1901: Jonathan Gudgeon, Carryping Porter

No. 10

1891: Henry Barnes, Chiropodist

1901: Henry Barnes, Chiropodist & Out Porter

85 Stramongate

1901: Anthony Thompson, Coal Merchant & Carter

Yard 87 Stramongate

No. 1

1901: Henry Bennett, School Porter & Gardener

89 Stramongate

1891: Joseph Green, Joiner

1901: Thomas John Green, Master Wheelwright (committed suicide 1905)

91 Stramongate

1891: William Bell, Tobacco Spinner

1901: William Bell, Tobacco Spinner

93 Stramongate

1891: Thomas Hutchinson, Shoemaker

1901: -

1920: William Gurnal Jopson, Confectioner & Tobacconist

95 Stramongate

1891: Mary Reighton, Living on Own Means

1901: John Teasdale, Marble Mason

97 Stramongate

1891:

1901:

99 Stramongate

1891: George Gardiner, Publican

1901: John Armstrong, Innkeeper