History of an Ordinary House in Hartham Road

Victorian Era Edwardian Era Linking 2 World Wars From Depression to Sex Pistols House Divided Present Era

Victorian Era - Jones/May

1871 - Under construction
1874 - Islington street directory shows house occupied by T. Jones.
1877 - T. Jones

1880 - Rate books show occupied by Theodore Jones but owned by L. or C.Willmott

1881 - Census gives details of Theodore Jones' household:
Theodore Jones, 85 , retired accountant, born Bristol, lunatic, paralysed
Martha Jones, 48, wife, b. Spitalfields
Helen Jones, 15, daughter, b. Tonbridge Wells
Emily Hind, 14, boarder, b. Brompton
Emma Ridgewell, 49, servant, b. Woodstock (Oxon?)
Catherine Jent, 44, domestic nurse, b. Shoreditch.

1882 - No-one registered

1883 - H. May listed

1887 - Henry May also noted in electoral register

1890 - Rate books show occupied by Sarah May occupies but owned by J. Osborne. H.May listed in street directory but no vote listed for the address. The same listing appeared in 1891.

1892 - H.May listed in street directory; Sarah May listed in electoral register. Same listing in 1893
1894 - H.May listed in street directory; no vote registered.
1895-1898 - No vote registered.
1899-1901 - George Connett listed in electoral register

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Edwardian Era

1901 - Josiah Dean listed as lodger on second floor.
1902 - No entry

1903 - Arthur Moore - moved from 392 York Road (now York Way)

1904-1906 - Henry Davis - moved from 10 Corinth Road. James William Morter, a lodger on the ground floor

1907 - Only Henry Davis listed.

1908 - Henry Davis with same lodger on first floor.

1909 - John Higgs - moved from 38 Eden Grove (Lower Holloway)

1910 - John Higgs plus James Guin Higgs are listed.

1911-1912 - John Higgs only.

1913 - John Higgs with Francis Witteridge, lodger, on first floor. Mrs Higgs listed as landlord.

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The Evans Era - linking two World Wars (26-31?yrs)

1913-1914 - David John Evan listed in street directory. No vote registered in 1914.
1915 - In autumn of this year David John Evan is listed in the electoral register.
In 1915/1916 street directory as D.J. Evans.

1919-1925 - Details in electoral register of David Evan's family.
1928 - Electoral register shows:
David John Evans
Mary Ellen Evans
Albert Edward Jones
Gertrude Joan Jones
n.b. Mrs Evans and Mrs Jones were qualified to vote by virtue of their husbands' occupations.

1929 - The Evans, plus Arthur Edwin Jones, Gertrude Frederica May Jones, Robert Tunaly

1933 - The Evans, plus Annie Blodwen Rees, Walter Pryce Rees & R.Tunaly.

1937-1938 - The Evans, plus Dilys Mary Evans, Gwen Evans, Annie Blodwen Rees, Walter Pryce Rees

1939 - As above, plus Beti Evans

1940-1944 - No electoral registers, but rate books show house owned by Ernest Elkins, who also owned and occupied no.75 in 1922 and 1931, and owned nos.83 and 85. Still occupied by the Evans??

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Rees (18ys)/Tanner (28yrs+)/Collier (26yrs) era - from '30's depression to The Sex Pistols

from 1933, The Rees' (with the Evans', as above)
1945 - Richard J. James, Gladys James, Walter P. Rees (from 1933), Walter S. Tanner

1946 - Still owned by E. Elkins.

1949 - The James', The Rees', Walter Tanner

1951 - The Rees', Walter Tanner, Peninnah Tanner

1952-1971 - Bertha L Collier, Charles W Collier, The Tanners

1971-1972 - Colliers and Tanners, plus Maximilian Tanner

1973 - Colliers and Tanners

1974 - Colliers only

1975 - The Colliers, plus Alexander Collier

1976-1977 - Extensive alterations to the building by CJ Shaw

1977 - Bertha, Charles and Alexander Collier plus Carol Fern and Christopher J. Shaw - property developer and freeholder. House now split into two legal entities - upper floors and ground floor flat.

1978 - As above, plus Christine Eckeblad - ground floor leasehold

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A House divided

1976 - House divided, as above
1979 - C. Shaw, Donna Twells, C. Eckeblad (ground floor)
1980-1982 - Carolyn F (Fiona) Coombes, Julian Coombes plus two children, C. Eckeblad (ground floor)

1984 - Margaret H Wilson, Peter F Wilson, C. Eckeblad (ground floor)

1986-1988 - Judith M. Thompson (freeholder), Paul A Thompson, plus three children, Karl A. Babbington, Stephen Waller (ground floor)

1996 - House reconverted (as below)

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Present era

1988 - from August 5th. Adrian Goodall, Deborah Goodall (freeholders) from September, Martin and Meg Wroe (ground floor)
1989-1990 - as above, with Sally Goodall, lodger.

1990 - Wesley Wroe born

1991 - Oliver Goodall born

1992 - Barnaby Goodall born

1993 - Grace Wroe born. Wroes move to Penn Road. Phil, Steph and Georgia Johnstone (ground floor)

1995 - Leo Goodall born. Johnstones move to Freegrove Road. Jim Woolfreys, Cecile Tschirhart (ground floor)

1996 - Woolfreys/Tschirhart move to Yerbury Road, Upper Holloway. Upper and Ground floor flats reconverted back into one property
2001 - New occupants

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