Can anyone help me find Cambridge Terrace?

[HelenaWojtczak]

Hi all

Since many on here have done extensive research into the East End, looking at maps, street directories, and the like....

My great grandparents lived at Cambridge Mansions, Cambridge Heath Road. I can find C.H. Road all right, but where is Cambridge Mansions?

If anyone can help, wd be v grateful!

Helena

[The Good Michael]

I think it's just off Marlybone Road a bit west of the Royal Academy of Music. I remember this from a Sherlock Holmes game I was playing one time. Maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to remember what I've just stated. I also remember a JTR connection in the same vicinity... or I remember that there was one. Don;t remember the details, sorry

Mike

[HelenaWojtczak]

Thanks for trying Mike, but it's in Cambridge Heath Road, Mile End. I am just trying to find out WHERE in that street the building was.

Helena

[Roy Corduroy]

http://www.mernick.org.uk/elhs/maps/bg1950.htm

In the middle of this 1950 map is Cambridge Heath Road running top to bottom. Near the top I see a Cambridge Crescent. The 1891 archives lists Cambridge Buildings on Darling Road, which intersects near the bottom.

It stretched through three registration districts, Hackney, Bethnal Green and Mile End Old Town. Checked those and the 1914 street directory but no "Terrace" or "Mansions."

Roy

[HelenaWojtczak]

Thank you Roy. It's kind of you to go to so much trouble.

Maybe I am misreading the census so here are two examples of the enumerator's handwriting, which I think says 'Mansions'.

There are ten of these 'Cambridge Mansions' (maybe a tenement block?) and the next thing in the census is Faith Street, which I see on the map you linked. I went up there in person last year, wandered about, hoping to see the words "Cambridge Mansions" carved in stone above a door but it's all post-Victorian flats etc. If Faith Street is next on the census, that impiles proximity, I suppose, unless there was a vast expanse of uninhabited buildings or open land in between.

Pity there isn't such a good map of 1901!

Helena

[HelenaWojtczak]

WHOOPS just realised I put Cambridge Terrace in the subject line by mistake (was very tired last nght!) It is Mansions, Terrrace was a dreamy invention of mine.