A Bruce postcard view of West Road, Loftus post marked 1904; prior to the building on the south side by George Hebditch, note the still un-metaled road and the casual attitude to possible traffic by the onlookers. No. 26 West Road is the fourth house down in the second block of houses on the right hand side of this image; next door to the present day dentist’s at no. 27. Norman Patton advised: ” I have a birth certificate for my Mother’s Auntie Alice May Hicks who was born in No 26 in 1895. According to the 1891 census, her parents were already living at 26 West Road where they were the first residents. They had lived at 2 Westfield Terrace at the previous census in 1881 so we have the decade in which those houses were completed!”
Image courtesy of Ann Wedgewood and Keith Bowers, thanks to Norman Patton for the update.
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