>Tigger, Many thanks for your comments on North street, Lewes. I am far from familiar with Lewes having only been in the town for a few days some years ago and most of what I do know comes from reading books and searching maps. I suspect that this part of the town was called St John's after the local church of St John sub-castro which I understand was built around 1861 on the site of an earlier church, possibly also called St John. If the designation of St John for this part of Lewes still applies I do not know. An old map of the area (1878) is rather hard to follow in its detail but does indicate that then the north end of North Street was on the edge of the town so i am assuming that someone living there could have been employed either in the town or on one of the surrounding farms. Bryan 11480 >Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:52:08 EDT >From: TiggerRadlett@aol.com >Subject: [SFHG] North Street, Lewes >To: sfhg@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <d20.26306690.351c0368@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > >The top part of North Street is residential and whilst not an expert at >dating buildings my guess is that it was in 1838. The lower part of >the street is >more industrialised and the buildings there I would place at being later, >though some may be rebuilds over older properties. Parts of North >Street are now > car parks unfortunately. > > >St John's street is just behind North Street. The houses in Little East >Street, a turning of North Street are look old enough to be in the >right period. > >Tigger > -- --Bryan Pannett