Blacksmiths Lane

Top, the cottages along Church Lane reproduced from a 1898 map
Below, a photograph of the row of cottages from Bunyans Chapel to the junction with Chequers Lane

Above cottage 1 in Church Lane.
Right from r to l, cottages 1-4
Church Lane 1900c

Above from r to l, cottages 2-8 Church Lane circa 1913. (Cottage 1 has been demolished.)

Above, an uninterrupted view of cottages 2-6 Church Lane.

The cottage which is now St Martins Place 1930c

Cottage 1 had been a beer house in the middle of the nineteenth century and cottage 7 was Mrs Stratton’s plaiting school in 1884. Cottages 1-8 were owned by Mr Ralston de V Pryor. Many of the tenants lived there from 1881 until at least 1910.

Cottage 1
Cottage 2
Cottage 3
Cottage 4
Cottage 5
Cottage 6
Cottage 7
Cottage 8

1881

SWAIN, George
PETERS, Elijah
CRAWLEY, Henry
PETERS, Peter
THRUSSELL, Charles
Uninhabited
WILSON, Thomas
SCOTT, William

Rms

5+
d/k
2
4
4
3
4
3

1891

SWAIN, George
Uninhabited
CRAWLEY, Henry
PETERS, Peter
ANDREWS, George
BUSHELL, Mary
STRATTEN, Elizabeth
SCOTT, William

1901

SWAIN, George
PETERS, Henry
CRAWLEY, Emma
PETERS, Peter
ANDREWS, George
BUSHELL, MARY
D/k
SCOTT, William

1910

SWAIN, George
PETERS, George
CRAWLEY, Henry
PETERS, Peter
ANDREWS, George
EWINGTON, Arthur
SMITH, Arthur
SCOTT, William

On the other side of Church Lane were The Old Forge (see the Tom Ashton page) and William and Mary Palmer were living in Cottage 9 in 1881 -1901. This also was the village barber’s shop in 1884. William died in 1898 and Mary continued living there for a few years. By 1910, Thomas Peters had moved into this home with more that five rooms. Opposite these houses was a wheelwright’s shop in 1884.

Sources: Censuses 1841-1901; WI History of Preston 1953.

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