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Hope Street, CREWE, CW2 7DR

From Camm Street along Lord Street towards Hope Street.

At the southern end of Lord Street, on the corner of Hope Street, an older Lord Street sign near a first floor window is above a newer sign near street level.

Viewed in February 2017. It looks like a small shop (or other commercial premises) used to be here.

In three of the terraced houses in this block of ten, lived as tenants, my Grandparents, Great Aunt and Uncle, and Aunt and Uncle. There were no bathrooms. The only sanitation was a privy at the bottom of the back garden which adjoined an alley way. This was originally emptied by the nightsoil men, but the privies had been converted to flushing toilets by the time I had to use them. It was still a cold walk down the garden in the winter. Bath time was once a week in a galvanised steel bath in front of the coal fire in the living room, filled up by heating water on the stove in pans. I can remember having to use this on the odd occasion I stayed. Current social mobility means that three members of the same extended family now rarely live in the same street; but for these people it was normal.

On the right here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5286354 the SP Manweb electricity substation is near the corner of Hope Street.

The business was founded in 1965. Their most popular services are metal polishing, chrome plating, zinc plating and vapour blasting. The building has the date 1899 on it, above the door on the left.

The business's website states that Niphos was established by Ronald Wilcox in 1965. In 2017, a sign alongside the door shows "Classic & custom chrome, Nickel plate, Zinc plate with yellow, clear & black passivates, Anodising, Polishing - And much much more!".

Located in Sycamore Works, Hope Street, viewed from the corner of Mill Street.

This fascinating piece of architecture is one of many pubs on this part of Nantwich Road. I have seen many half tiled pubs, but usually find the tiles on the lower half.