These are most likely the houses that were demolished around 1937 as part of the slum clearance of Old Port Clarence. Ninety Two properties consisting of six rows of back to back houses, two rows of houses and two lock up shops were in the clearance.
It had been proposed to demolish the houses in 1913, as the expansion of Bell Brothers Iron Works after 1903 had encroached right up to them. Probably because of the Great war the building of 40 new houses at Port Clarence to re-home a portion of the tenants was still taking place up to 1937.
My Dad & Grand-Father both worked and lived near to this complex. His family came over to work there from Ross Common in Ireland. All of the staff at this time were from the West Coast of Ireland.
These are most likely the houses that were demolished around 1937 as part of the slum clearance of Old Port Clarence. Ninety Two properties consisting of six rows of back to back houses, two rows of houses and two lock up shops were in the clearance.
It had been proposed to demolish the houses in 1913, as the expansion of Bell Brothers Iron Works after 1903 had encroached right up to them. Probably because of the Great war the building of 40 new houses at Port Clarence to re-home a portion of the tenants was still taking place up to 1937.
Is this Clarence old cottages, next to the old Port Clarence school, half a mile east of the Transporter Bridge?
My Dad & Grand-Father both worked and lived near to this complex. His family came over to work there from Ross Common in Ireland. All of the staff at this time were from the West Coast of Ireland.