WEST STREET

27 October, 2011 WEST STREET

Tetbury Families

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	Harper Street is one of the oldest streets in Tetbury. It is first mentioned before 1398 as Hatter Street. By the early C17th it was called Harper Street. Between 1917 and 1930 the name changed to West Street.

In the late C16th houses were built at the entrance to the street. As can be seen from the 1838 map above most of the housing was on the north side. The 1890 map below shows the housing on the south side has been developed.
In the most recent edition of Pevsners Guides, the Buildings of England - the Cotswolds, by David Verey, West Street is described as "once packed with artisan housing". Most of this appears to have been demolished to make way for the carpark.
The Prince of Wales Inn, locally known as the Drum and Monkey, with its skittle alley, formed part of the continuous line of houses along the street. This Inn has now been demolished to make way for new housing.


	c.1900 looking towards the church with the same view in 2009

It was once a notorious area of the town and associated with poverty. A newspaper report from 25 February 1905 shows some of the characters behaviour:

TETBURY PETTY SESSIONS

ASSAULT BY A WOMAN

A married woman, of Harper Street, was summoned for an assault on a married man, also of Harper Street. It appeared that the complainant and defendant, with others while in the Talbot Hotel on Saturday night, had some dispute on a trifling matter; in the course of which, defendant alleged, that complainant made some offensive remarks to her. Meeting with him later in the street she went for him, striking him a violent blow between the eyes, cutting his face open, the blood flowing freely. The man declared he did not lift a hand against the woman, and she has positively asserted that he pressed his hand against her breast, and pushed her back. Both had been drinking. Charles Belcher, a youth corroborated complainant's evidence in every particular. The chairman said the defendant had undoubtedly committed an assault. If provoked, as she possibly was, she should have kept out of the man's way. Fined 1s.

PROPERTY OWNERS 1860

ACKLAND; BEARD; BENNETT; BISHOP; BROWNING; CLARK; COOK; COX; CUSS; DREW; ELLIOTT; FRY; GOLDING; HANCOX; JONES; LARDNER; LEACY; LLOYD; PLASTERER; PRICE; SAUNDERS; SEALY; SMITH; SNAILUM; TOWNSEND; VANSTONE; WEARE; WILKINS; WINDOW; WITCHELL.




		Photos © Lynne Cleaver 2008



	Looking towards Cottons Lane. [above and left]

SOURCES:

Tetbury Poor Rates

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES:

Estates of William Byam

D5474/1 - date: (1776)-1814 a messuage (formerly the Rose and Crown Inn) in West Street, Tetbury

Foxhill Property Deeds

D1774/1 - date: 10 April 1759 Deed to Declare the Uses of a Fine: Giles Pike the elder of Tetbury, woolstapler (1), Thomas his eldest son and heir (2) and Thomas Emley of Tetbury, cordwainer (3): messuage, and two little messuages in Harper Street, Tetbury, and a messuage near the Green.

RECORDS OF MULLINGS, ELLETT and CO, SOLICITORS

D182/III/143 - date: 1803-1836 messuage and ground where barn stood in Harper Street, Tetbury and 'new erected' cottage on the site of the barn

GLOUCESTERSHIRE POLICE RECORDS

PHOTOGRAPHS - ref. Q/Y/6

Road accidents - Photograph album of scenes of road accidents [in Chipping Sodbury Division] - ref. Q/Y/6/4/1 pp.74 West Street, Tetbury, with van DG 7052. c1936

Maps reproduced with permission from Gloucestershire Archives


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