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Position:Home>Genealogy> Can anyone please read this street name...thanks...a better image?Question:Thanks to all who answered here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... O really appreciate your input, thanks... Here is a more deailed screenshot hopefully. The entry I am really interested in is the second entry ...thanks :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/7227123@N02... Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Thanks to all who answered here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... O really appreciate your input, thanks... Here is a more deailed screenshot hopefully. The entry I am really interested in is the second entry ...thanks :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/7227123@N02... The image reads 28 Paradise Street, 40/- do ( abbreviation for ditto) I have calculated the 40 shillings in 1900 to be worth ￡102:71 today, so whether that was the rent-able value of the house per annum I don't know, it might well be. If it is the rent-able value of the house, there are 12 old pennies to the shilling working on that information that would make the rent per week to be about 91/2 pence per week. I think it was said 9pence ha-penny, something like that. The link below is a currency converter, old money to new. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/curre... Hope this helps. Could you possibly email me with the details so that I can search the census return for myself. I did originally think it was the symbol for a shilling /- but on closer inspection it isn't is it. I have just done a search for Paradise Street in Sheffield, there are two one in the S1 area and the other in the S3 area, The second one is the home of a victim support group now the first only has the numbers 2-6 on there now. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/po... 28 Paradise ST Paradise Street. 2nd entry says 40/- for house. 40/- is the old way of saying forty shillings,it looks like this is the rent. 28 Paradise Street, Sheffield... Looks like Paradise Street 28 Paradise street :) Chandice street? or thats what i thought? Yes indeed; Paradise St. I was a student there many years ago and I can confirm that there is such a street in Sheffield. Obviously we are talking about a house in Paradise Street, Sheffield. Exactly which one is difficult to say without seeing the full page from the Census. As far as I can see the enumerator has departed from the usual form of recording. It would only be by looking at this sheet and the ones around it that you could be absolutely certain what method he (and it probably was a he) had adopted. It's Paradise Street, I think you need your eyes checked out if you cannot read that................... PARADISE STREET, hang on mmmm # On Mother Kelly's door step ....# |