Why ‘Marcia’? it was named after the mother of Charles Rolls, founder of the Rolls-Royce cars company, and a pioneering aviator until he was killed in his plane in 1909.The Rolls family owned extensive lands in the area, nearby Hendre Road was named after the Rolls’ family’s home just outside of Monmouth, Wales.
Penry Street, that links Marcia Road and Old Kent Road (used to be called Northampton Street) but, at some point, was named after “an important religious dissident in the time of Elizabeth I who was taken to the gallows – opposite Tesco – where there was also a gibbet to hang up dead people as an example to potential sinners and heretics
MARCIA ROAD
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My nan Kate Oliver (McDonald) lived at 45 MARCIA ROAD in 1901.
3 to 87 Marcia Road (and the 4 similar houses on Penry St), you may like to know that they have a 130+ years’ history before 1999 when the developers Galliard started to build them. Briefly, the houses are built on the ‘footprint’ of houses that comprised a street built in the 1880s. The modern houses preserve the proportions and window details of the originals with the exception of the chimneys and the place to store the rubbish bins.
The original intention was to renovate the houses, but they were in such a poor state that it was agreed that the best thing would be to demolish them all and build new but preserving the old look. That is why the street is new but looks Victorian, the street was completely re-built between 1999 and 2002.
3 to 87 Marcia Road (and the 4 similar houses on Penry St), you may like to know that they have a 130+ years’ history before 1999 when the developers Galliard started to build them. Briefly, the houses are built on the ‘footprint’ of houses that comprised a street built in the 1880s. The modern houses preserve the proportions and window details of the originals with the exception of the chimneys and the place to store the rubbish bins.
The original intention was to renovate the houses, but they were in such a poor state that it was agreed that the best thing would be to demolish them all and build new but preserving the old look. That is why the street is new but looks Victorian, the street was completely re-built between 1999 and 2002.
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3 Marcia Road was the home of Timothy Lyons,1852-1923, Elizabeth, nee Tobin, his wife, 1854-1924, from 1909 until 1924. Timothy was living here from 1909 until he died in 1923. As was his widow, Elizabeth, when she died in 1924.
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1923. Timothy Lyons dies 10/12/1923 at 3 Marcia Road , aged 71, a Tea Warehouseman. Cause of Death: 1, Bronchitis. 2, Cerebral Hoemorhage. Informant on the death certificate was H. Blackmore (the now married daughter Helen) of 47 Darville Road, Stoke Newington. Death Certificate D3 . Seemingly no Will [Ancestry National probate records], whereas his widow left one 3 months later.
For more information http://www.lyons-family.co.uk/Lyons/1852-lyons-timothy/02-Timothy-1852.htm
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London's fifteen-year-old milk-woman - 15-year-old Rose Brown, has taken the place of a milkman who was called up for the Forces. Every morning at 8 o'clock Rose starts out on her rounds pushing a heavily laden milk barrow. At 2pm she finishes and returns to the dairy to give a hand in the bottling department until 5pm. She volunteered for the job when the milkman was called up and nobody else could be found to take the job, February 8th, 1941. Alvey Street was off Kinglake Street, now ends at Surrey Grove. (2017).
By all accounts there was an Ash’s Dairy on the corner of Dunton Road & Marcia Road at this time.
According to a Marcia Road website reader who knew Rose, she lived in an alley that ran alongside Greyhound Bridge in Dunton Road.
By all accounts there was an Ash’s Dairy on the corner of Dunton Road & Marcia Road at this time.
According to a Marcia Road website reader who knew Rose, she lived in an alley that ran alongside Greyhound Bridge in Dunton Road.
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The first picture is in Dunton Road. I've posted here to tie in with the post above.
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