Hello Mary and Bob, Many thanks for both your replies. Sorry Mary, I think my original question may have caused confusion. The Bank, Neithrop was actually a row of houses. The houses built to the north of Middleton Road which is in Grimsbury were financed by Cobb's Bank - a financial institution. However your post brought back many memories. I was born in Banbury and delivered newspapers as a boy in the 1950's to most of the streets you mentioned Bob, your answer was brilliant as it triggered a memory. The chapel you mentioned belonged to the Baptist church and I was born in the fifth house to the west of it and lived there with my parents until the mid 1960's. I remember an old lady asking my mother where we lived and when she told her, the lady said "oh in the posh houses up the bank"!!! I thought she meant because the houses (built in the 1920's or 30's by John Broughton the builder) were raised up above the road. The reason for my original question was because my 2x great grandfather John Brookes b1819, who came from a long line of Ag. Lab's in Hinton Hamlet, Northants, moved with his family to live in the Bank between 1851 and 1855 and became a general labourer. I suppose you could say he became part of the industrial revolution. My great grandfather, also John Brookes was born there in 1857, virtually the same place I was born 87 years later! The family moved to Foundry Square (1871 census) and John (b1857) eventually became a 'moulder'. There was a small iron foundry in Foundry Square and I'm guessing he made the sand moulds there. It was a corrugated iron building which was still operating as a blacksmith's when I was a boy. It was later demolished and I think Young's Garage built a workshop there. By the way 'Paradise' was the local name for the first curved bit of Bath Road from its junction with Warwick Road to the side entrance to the Peoples Park. There was a Midland Red bus route which went that way and the conductor always shouted 'Paradise' for the stop there. Thanks again for your help. Barry 2009/7/24 <eng-banbury-area-request@rootsweb.com> > > > **************************************** > If you are going to reply to one of these digest messages, please quote > only the specific message to which you are replying, and remove the rest of > the digest. > Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it matches the > subject of the message to which you are replying. > ~ Thank you. > **************************************** > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ENG-BANBURY-AREA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156 (Mary Whitlock) > 2. Re: The Bank, Neithrop (Bob Sangster) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:10:10 +0100 > From: Mary Whitlock <mary.whitlock@googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [BAN] ENG-BANBURY-AREA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156 > To: eng-banbury-area@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <2017b6690907230110v6245dee0pa90dda1a4e47437c@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello Barry > I found this reference to Cobbs Bank, any help? > > Further expansion in Neithrop occurred after 1850; thus St. Paul's Terrace > and the houses on the west side of Paradise Road were among several small > terraces that had been built in Neithrop village before 1881, besides some > 50 houses in the newly laid out Park Road and Queen Street. (fn. 141) > Another 50 houses were built between 1852 and 1881 along the borough's > northern boundary, when Back Lane was converted into Castle Street West, > and > Castle Street East was laid out. (fn. 142) The town's principal expansion > in > the mid 19th century was to the east. In the area known as Cherwell between > Broad Street and the canal, lying partly within and partly outside the > borough, development began along the canal; Upper and Lower Cherwell > Streets > and Windsor Street had been built before 1851, (fn. 143) and there followed > building between Windsor Street and Broad Street so that by 1881 there were > some 350 modern houses in the whole area. (fn. 144) A slightly later > development still further east in Grimsbury was of larger houses. There had > been some suburban development there by the early 19th century. 'A lot of > cottages called Waterloo' which apparently lay just east of Banbury Bridge > to the north of the road, housed 'a lot of disreputable inhabitants, > lodginghouses and otherwise, of the lowest character'. (fn. 145) In 1841 > Waterloo was described as 'the modern and most populous part of Grimsbury'. > (fn. 146) The principal 19th-century building development within Grimsbury > occurred between 1852 and 1881, when some 500 houses were built, partly > south of the Middleton road in Causeway, Merton Street, and Duke Street, > but > mostly to the north between the Middleton road and North Street. (fn. > 147) *When > meadows and a race-course at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western > Railway, the same owner sold his land to the north of the Middleton road to > the Banbury Freehold Land Society, which was backed by Cobb's Bank; many of > the early houses built were middle-class in character, but development was > slow and some plots were never built upon. (fn. 148) * > > From: 'Banbury: Origins and growth of the town', A History of the County of > Oxford: Volume 10: Banbury hundred (1972), pp. 18-28. URL: > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63789 Date accessed: > 23 > July 2009. > Regards > Mary > 2009/7/23 <eng-banbury-area-request@rootsweb.com> > > > > > > > **************************************** > > If you are going to reply to one of these digest messages, please quote > > only the specific message to which you are replying, and remove the rest > of > > the digest. > > Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it matches the > > subject of the message to which you are replying. > > ~ Thank you. > > **************************************** > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. The Bank, Neithrop (Barry Dunwoody) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:56:13 +1000 > > From: Barry Dunwoody <barry.dunwoody@gmail.com> > > Subject: [BAN] The Bank, Neithrop > > To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA@rootsweb.com > > Message-ID: > > <56229b940907222056o3813102byf5773fde1b7bf4e9@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Does anyone know where the street called the Bank, Neithrop was in > relation > > to present day roads? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Barry > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > To contact the ENG-BANBURY-AREA list administrator, send an email to > > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > > To post a message to the ENG-BANBURY-AREA mailing list, send an email to > > ENG-BANBURY-AREA@rootsweb.com. > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the > body > > of the > > email with no additional text. > > > > > > End of ENG-BANBURY-AREA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156 > > ************************************************ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:03:30 -0400 > From: Bob Sangster <ukbsan1@talktalk.net> > Subject: Re: [BAN] The Bank, Neithrop > To: eng-banbury-area@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8CBD9F88BDF4E1F-6F4-19A6@FRR5-L26.sis.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello Barry, > > Some of my family used to mention this, and in fact it was just a localised > phrase, due to the houses being built on a bank running along Warwick Road. > To be more precise, I worked out that the section mentioned was between the > old Methodist Church, and where the old Workhouse/Neithrope Hospital once > stood. These church (now changed into a home), and the houses are still > there, basically on the right as you drive along Warwick Road as if you are > going out of Banbury, on that road. > > As an aside, there was another localised name given to another section > close to this area, that was called?'Paradise Walk'.? > > > Enjoy Life. > Never promise, but will always try. > Regards, > Bob Sangster > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Dunwoody <barry.dunwoody@gmail.com> > To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 4:56 > Subject: [BAN] The Bank, Neithrop > > > > Does anyone know where the street called the Bank, Neithrop was in relation > to present day roads? > Any help would be appreciated. > Barry > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List archives are at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/eng-banbury-area > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-BANBURY-AREA list administrator, send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ENG-BANBURY-AREA mailing list, send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-BANBURY-AREA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 157 > ************************************************ >