Pullins Green

Number 7 - Bromley

Number 7 is the right hand house in the pair of houses which look like they may have been one house at one time.  They is certainly a strange arrangement with the front door of number 7 beneath one of the bedrooms of number 5.

We haven't seen the deeds of the house so don't know when they were built nor able to confirm whether they were ever one house.  They were both there in the 1840 Tithe Survey when they were two separate houses.  Number 7 was owned and occupied by John Powell.  The 1841 census confirms John was living there with his wife Elizabeth.  It also shows John was living on independent means.   John died on 13 June 1843 aged 80 years.  Elizabeth died 2 April 1850 aged 80 years. They are buried in St Mary's Churchyard.  Emma Powell is also buried there - she died in 1837 aged 26 years.

The Rate Books provide a useful record of some of the owners of the house.  In 1876 John Eyles was the owner.  By 1880 Richard James had become the owner and he continued until 1894 when George Hughes was listed as owner.  Following George's death in 1906, Mrs Hughes was shown as the owner.

The house was given the name of 'Bromley' in 1936.  When the Hughes family into the house moved from Crispin Lane, they experienced some confusion with the delivery of mail - there were no house numbers at the time and two Hughes families living in the area.  (Another Alice Hughes was living in St John Street).   The Alice Hughes who had moved to Pullins Green decided to give the house a name to eliminate problems.  She noticed the name of the place  'Bromley' in a newspaper and liked it!  The name has been in use ever since.  

Click here to read more about the other occupants of number 7

This page was last updated: 15/12/2009