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    1. Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] How many Bedford Streets were there inGosportin 1881?
    2. Margaret
    3. Hi Jon, I don't know if this helps, but just to let you know that the Market House is a pub, it is the last building on the south side of Forton road, at the junction with Ann's Hill Road. It is number 347 Forton Road now, although there wasn't a publican listed there in 1881. Bedford Street is the last turning off Forton Road, to the south, before Ann's Hill Road, and there are a few other buildings between Ann's Hill and Bedford Street, apart from the pub, but I don't know whether they were there in 1881. That end of Forton Road does seem to be a bit of a jumble in 1881. There are terraces, e.g St Ann's Terrace, which are now incorporated into Forton Road, and some addresses, e.g. Spring Street and Commercial Place that do not exist now in those names. I have part of an old map in a book of old and new photos of Gosport, which shows there were some tiny houses called Morant Cottages which were accessed down an alley to the side of 236 Forton Road. I must have a look on my way to work tomorrow! Regards from Margaret.

    11/28/2006 09:47:14