St John Street
Number 2 - The Court House
No. 1 St John Street
No. 1A St John Street
No. 3 St John Street
No. 5 St John Street
No. 7 St John Street
No. 9 St John Street
No. 11 St John Street
No. 13 St John Street
No. 15 St John Street
No. 17 St John Street
No. 19 St John Street
No. 21 St John Street
No. 23 St John Street
No. 2 St John Street
No. 4 St John Street
No. 6 St John Street
No. 8 St John Street
The house once known as number 2 St John Street has long since gone, having been demolished in 1982 to make way for Quaker Court sheltered housing.
It
was accessed from St John street down a lane running between the rear access
to the Plough Inn and Trayhurn's slaughterhouse in St John Street. The
building backed directly onto the garage built by Edmund Cullimore in St
Mary Street, but as far as we know there was no direct access to St Mary
Street.
We don't have a full history of the building, but we know that the building was very old. It was part of the buildings used by the old Corporation of Thornbury for community use. Other buildings in the neighbourhood once accommodated a school, the workhouse (before it was moved to the new building in Gloucester Road about 1840), the police station and almshouses.
Local historian, Tom Crowe did a brief survey of the building before it was demolished. Click here to read the details of his notes.
The 1840 Tithe survey shows the building as part of the property owned by the Board of Guardians of the Thornbury Union. It is not possible to identify when the property began to be used as a house. The earliest reference we have found so far which confirms that someone is living there is the 1899 Kelly's Trade Directory which gave the address of George Hughes as 'Court House, St John Street'. From that time onwards we have a pretty good idea of who lived there from electoral registers, school and church records.
Click here to read more about the families who occupied the property.
This page was last updated: 13/01/2008