Lancaster & Nottidge Roads
street name signs
2001 image
Lancaster Road: a sign screwed over the original paint
on brick . The condensed capitals are rather unusual, the sign probably
dating from the time when heavier cast iron street signs with
chunkier characters (see Parliament Street
for other examples) were replaced by thinner embossed steel signs such
as this one. See the nearby St Helens
Church Lane for a similar example. The 'L'
and 'AD' can be seen at each
end, with the tops of the capitals
appearing
over the top edge of the metal sign.
2016
image of the north side
Lancaster Road is a short street running between Palmerston Road and Warwick
Road. It is of interest because the houses in it were the first to
be
built in Ipswich by the Freehold Land Society
in 1866. The terraced dwellings were described at the
time as 'high quality, 2-bedroom, workman's houses'. At this early
stage the FLS didn't put name/date plaques on the terraces.
[UPDATE
2.10.2016: The Lancaster Road nameplate hangs away from the wall,
presumably because of vandalism rather than weather...]
2016
images
[UPDATE 2020: by this time the
Lancaster Road nameplate had dropped – or been pulled – off.]
2021 image
See our Cavendish
Street page for a large map detail from 1867 of the eastern part of
the town. Lancaster Road is notable in that its terraces are already
built at this time, although with no housing in either Palmerston or
Warwick Roads, they look a little isolated. Many other parts of the Freehold Land Society land are hardly plotted out.
Nottidge Road
Not far away, and even more
mysterious,
are the traces of lettering on the wall of the building at the corner
of
Nottidge Road and Alexandra Road.
2000 image
Here the words 'NOTTIDGE ROAD'
and 'NOTTIDGE RD.' are still
traceable in
two previous painted
versions, the first part removed/obliterated by new brickwork and a
plastic
downpipe. The building carried an extension which formed a grocery shop
until about twenty years ago (there was a tiny hidden Tolly Cobbold
off-licence
behind it in Alexandra Road which was open in the evenings). For some
time
it was a yacht chandlery – a number of years before the Wet Dock was
developed
as a marina - and has now been converted into flats, the way of so many
of our corner shops.
It wasn't until 2024 that we noticed, cut into the brickwork pillar of
the corner house fronting Spring Road:
'NOTTIDGE
VILLAS'
Enhanced
2024 image
Related pages:
Street nameplates;
Cauldwell Hall Road
house names; Rosehill
house names; Cavendish Street house
names; Marlborough Road house
names;
Ipswich & Suffolk Freehold Land
Society (F.L.S.)
Named buildings
list
Dated buildings list; Dated buildings
examples;
Origins of street names
in Ipswich; Streets named after slavery
abolitionists;
Street index.
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