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Florence Terrace Rosedale

We wondered who the Florence was that this Terrace was named after; Toby Clempson tells us: ”The Florence in question is likely to have been Florence Nightingale, whose medical work in the Crimean War of the 1850s made her famous having been widely publicised in the British Press not all that long before the Rosedale Abbey iron mining boom of the 1870s took place.”
Image (from a William Hayes postcard) courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and many thanks to Toby Clempson for the update.

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