Hi Margaret Hood Street is in Ancoats, just outside Manchester city centre, an area where lots of mills, mill workers and Italians settled in Manchester's cotton boom. You can 'walk' down the street on Google maps street view and there's a large Victorian building opposite St Peter's (Anglican) church which could well have been the hostel. The church is now used for rehearsal space and concerts by the famous Halle Orchestra. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/448/archives_and_local_history Manchester has a good local history archive online best wishes Jane -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Cambridge via Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 3:57 PM To: Nivard Ovington ; yorksgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [YORKSGEN] Walton House Municipal Hostel, Manchester Hi Nivard, I guess it was a men's hostel as 99% of the people there are elderly men. A few women as unpaid domestics and my great aunt, Beatrice M. STEAD, b 15 March 1883, was a grocer's assistant. On studying the image further I find it was Men's Homes M/C Salford, Methodist Mission, 24 Hood Street, Manchester 4 and I have been able to find more information on line. Thanks for giving me that kick Nivard. Number one on my list of 'how to do better' is 'become more observant'....LOL Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington via" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> To: <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 2:49 AM Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Walton House Municipal Hostel, Manchester Hi Marg The only mention I can find of a Walton House Manchester is one on Harrison street but it appears to be a male hostel Do you have detail to enable finding of the place in the 1939 so I can see the location The wording Municipal Hostel suggests temporary accommodation run by the council Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 09/04/2016 20:56, Margaret Cambridge via wrote: > I found my grandmother's sister in Walton House Municipal Hostel in the > 1939 Register. She was a single 56 year old woman who is recorded as a > Grocery shop assistant. > > Would this be a place she may stay for a long period or was it temporary. > > Thanks for any info. I have checked on line but can't find much about it. > > Marg ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message