Hi Andrew, If you look at the census for 1871 (I think, this is off the top of my head and it is midnight! Might have been 1881.) and go street by street, you can find many, many "back of" addresses. Indeed, it seems that most of the streets had a row of cottages behind them. My suspicion is that Tredegar was much like the "back-to-back" parts of cities like Birmingham at that time. The census shows that these were houses with multiple families lodging in many of them and they probably had a long, narrow courtyard like an alleyway between the two rows of properties. The "back of" rows would not usually have had direct access to the street, but would have had to go down the court to the end of the row of properties opening onto the street and then out to the front. Most of them will have gone with "improvement" programmes, (probably in the 1950s and 60s) reducing the density of the occupation. As a result, "back of Queen Street" would have been exactly that, the row of dwellings behind Queen Street. Woodview Place might well be findable by trawling through the census too. What I do is have a part screen window showing a map from the Old Maps site open next to my census page from LDS (or your searching site of choice), then go house to house, following the census route to try to work out where some vanished streets used to be. It isn't always conclusive. I'm still hunting for 'Trecelyn' in what is now Newbridge: it was a street name with more than a hundred houses on it in 1890 (from when I have a death cert)...and has totally vanished by 1901 and on the earliest map I can find. However, usually, you can work it out if you don't mind going a bit cross-eyed peering at old maps! At the very least, you can pick up nearby streets which do still exist and that can help to narrow down the area. By following the census route, you can see where the existing bits fit into the old street plan and it starts to create a picture of how it used to be. Good hunting! Sian

At 00:02 26/12/2013, Sian Mackey wrote: > I'm still hunting for 'Trecelyn' in what is now Newbridge: it was > a street name >with more than a hundred houses on it in 1890 (from when I have a death >cert)...and has totally vanished by 1901 and on the earliest map I can >find. That's an interesting one because Trecelyn is the Welsh name for Newbridge. Hugh