Kinaston Street re-appears
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Kinaston Street re-appears
Image: © John S Turner Taken: 7 Aug 2009
Looking from St Martins Way, across the remains of Kinaston Street, towards the former George Street School in the distance. In the 1960s and 1970s this area was cleared, in part to make way for the inner ring road, which is behind the camera. Now the site is to be redeveloped and it is being excavated. The camera angle is looking diagonally across the cobbled street, which, according to the 1851 census, only had 7 houses on each side. As far as I can ascertain Kinaston Street (later Kynaston Street) first appeared on the 1851 census and one of the residents was a George Kinaston (junior). George Kinaston (senior), a 'Fringe Maker', lived in the adjacent St Anne's Street and his will, dated 1857, refers to him as a 'Gentleman', and 'former fringe maker', and to his 'freehold property in St Anne Street', so as a man of substance it seems likely that the street was named by, or after, him.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.19504
Longitude
-2.890412