NUMBERS 2 & 4 SOME VERY INTRIGUING LINKS
Information that was used for the Crow Lane project exhibition on May 10th 2003
SOME VERY INTRIGUING LINKS
BETWEEN NOS. 2 & 4
1929 - NO. 2 SWALLOWS UP NO. 4
1954 - No. 2 MAKES A GIFT OF NO. 4
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NO. 2 SWALLOWS UP NO. 4 CROW LANE
EVIDENCE FROM 1929 MAP
Look carefully at the green section in the attached map of 1929
Is there a mistake in the way the map was drawn ? Or has No. 2 nearly swallowed up No. 4
EVIDENCE FROM 20TH CENTURY DOCUMENTS Electoral Roll 1932 the Everett family live at "4 back"
EVIDENCE FROM THE RATES VALUATIONS
Rates for No. 2 £15 : 10 No.4 £ 5 Nos. 6- 18 £ 9 : 10 for each house
Clearly the Rate for No. 2 is much bigger than most houses & for No. 4 is much smaller
We don't know how much of the house then belonged to No.4 but it may have been just the back room and the outkitchen
By 1934 No. 2 & No. 4 were paying similar rates and so must have returned to being two normal houses
THE LINKS BETWEEN NO. 2 & NO. 4 WERE
POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL LEASE
THE ORIGINAL LEASE Most of the houses were originally leased as a plot of land with groups of houses
The plots for Nos. 2 & 4 were leased by the same persom who may have built them & then let them out for rent
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THE DOOR BETWEEN THE HOUSES
Several local residents have told us that there was a door between the two houses, so that a housekeeper or relative could go between them to look after someone in the other house, which probably ties in with peter Armstrong's comments about Mr & Mrs Yarrow.
The current owner found a door between the houses in one of the bedrooms, when he was knocking some of the plaster off.
ONE LAST LINK
A CHEAP WAY TO GET YOUR CHIMNEY POINTED
No. 2 has two chimney stacks, one at each end of the roof . When the owner of no. 4 arranged to have his chimney stack re-pointed, the builder pointed the 2nd stack of no. 2 by mistake
CHIMNEY STACKS No. 2 has two chimney stacks, And when the owner of no. 4 had his chimney stack re-pointed, the builder pointed the 2nd stack for no. 2 by mistake -
NUMBERS 2 & 4 Local residents have the impression that the two houses were once joined in some way