Changes of house address around Victoria Station late 1880s

I suspect, from looking at an 1839 map and at multimap for the
postcode of the current 160 Victoria Street, that 15 Stockbridge
Terrace was relabelled as 160 Victoria Street. Ie, the family HART
that lived at first one (1871, 1881) and then the other (1891, 1901)
did not move.

Jo Taylor...

Hello Cecilia,

Not able to help on the street numbers, but I do have HARTs in London - you
might want to contact me, I also admin. the HART-UK list.

Excuse me for tacking this on here, but did you manage to contact your
Hungarian-speaking friend ref. my query a few weeks ago? I did e-mail you
but I'm not sure if it reached you.

All the best,
Jo

Is it likely that the details of road adjustments, eg at the time of
building Victoria Station, would enable me to confirm this?

(160 Victoria Street is now an Italian restaurant, so can be included
in our family's new game of showing filial respect by eating or
drinking in the building now on the spot of a past residence of a
forebear - this makes the fourth possibility )

chris_doran...

It probably suffered in the 1888 mass renaming/renumbering by the LCC.
"Stockbridge Terrace, St Peter, Pimlico, ST GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE
[1862]" which sounds like it. Any London local history library should
have a copy of the LCC's "Names of Streets and Places in the
Administrative County of London" (you can also buy it from
exact details. Around here, the Council Minutes infuriatingly just say
they decided to renumber Such-and-Such Road, without stating the
changes.

To confirm your suspicions you need to draw up a table of a dozen or so

myths...

Thanks for bothering.

It had dawned on me (after I posed the question) that that was the
solution, but I still hoped for something less tedious -
the family concerned changed names (including some surnames) and ages
almost as easily as others change hair-styles, so if the rest of their
community did likewise I may have problems.

[There's very little doubt - it's clear Stockbridge Terrace became
more of Victoria Street. 15 was about halfway along, and multimap
shows 160 Victoria Street as being in that position. But confirmation
would be nice as an extra point in verifying the family is the same,
given that the surname is not rare and the head appears to have used
given names of
Isaac M,
Albert,
Joseph,
Isaac Michael
over a 30 year period.]

neighbours either side and check their (non-)movements also. Between
technique is required when named houses get numbered, but not 100%
reliable as enumerators and directories don't always put them in order,
and it was common to take your house name with you when you moved.

Chris
Researching Penge, Anerley, London SE20, and neighbouring parts of
Beckenham, Kent.