A George Skilbeck postcard view of Coronation Road taken from the east these are the private houses, we were unsure if it was a clear enough picture to see if the council houses were there when it was taken. Norman Patton tells us: ”The picture would be taken around the early 1950s. The VHF television aerials started to be common place about that time, events such as the Coronation and Stanley Matthew’s Cup winner’s medal with Blackpool shown from Wembley! the “council houses” were built quite a while before this, perhaps even late 30s.” Margaret Atkinson tells us: ”My gran and mam were first tenants to move they lived at no 11 that was 1939 their name was Meggie Trevor.” The 1939 Census (taken at the outbreak of the Second World War) tells us that Meggie and her son Arthur were resident at 11 Coronation Road.
Image courtesy of Ken Johnson and many thanks to Norman Patton and Margaret Atkinson for the updates.
My gran Meggie Trevor was married to Francis Vincent St Ledger Trevor, the Arthur was her son not her husband and she and my mam Alice McAuley Formerly (Trevor) moved from Street Houses to Coronation Road