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Ripon Street, LINCOLN, LN5 7NH

It would be hard to miss Ripon Street Stores on the corner of Ripon Street and St.Andrew's Street - with Union flags for the Jubilee, Olympics and Paralympics in 2012

Cut bench mark on the south face of a house at the junction of Thesiger Street with St Andrews Street. See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm72177 for details.

Co-operative No 4 Branch opened in Ripon street early in 1878 at 43 on the opposite corner, with No.41 here the Co-op butchers in housing built by Joseph Crosby and Sons. The January 1900 Co-op directors report said, “We have purchased property in Ripon Street, adjoining the Butchery Branch, and when the plans for converting the whole of the site into a large General Store are passed by the City Corporation, the work will be immediately begun”. This new shop in the current building, No.37-41 Ripon Street, opened on 13th Dec 1900 built by the co-op's own building department replacing the houses. The May 1947 Co-op report tells of the floods that includes flooding of this branch along with 3,000 houses in Lincoln. Despite a search of directors reports from 1960 it is not clear when the Co-op moved out, Ripon Street only being mentioned in 1962-1963 as far as I could tell but in 1973 they reported they had closed the butchers in Ripon Street (before 31st March). R Reid (Electrical Distributors) Ltd were incorporated in December 1987 and occupied the building after that date for a number of years until July 1999. I think it stood empty for a while but planning approved change of use in June 1999 for conversion to 3 x 6 bedroomed student accommodation units. However the one door carries the number 39. Note the vending machine on the Cross street wall that has never been removed. See Image for the same picture in 1989.

Co-operative No 4 Branch opened in Ripon street early in 1878 at 43 on the opposite corner, with No.41 here the Co-op butchers in housing built by Joseph Crosby and Sons. The January 1900 Co-op directors report said, “We have purchased property in Ripon Street, adjoining the Butchery Branch, and when the plans for converting the whole of the site into a large General Store are passed by the City Corporation, the work will be immediately begun”. This new shop in the current building, No.37-41 Ripon Street, opened on 13th Dec 1900 built by the co-op's own building department replacing the houses. The May 1947 Co-op report tells of the floods that includes flooding of this branch along with 3,000 houses in Lincoln. Despite a search of directors reports from 1960 it is not clear when the Co-op moved out, Ripon Street only being mentioned in 1962-1963 as far as I could tell but in 1973 they reported they had closed the butchers in Ripon Street (before 31st March). R Reid (Electrical Distributors) Ltd were incorporated in December 1987 and occupied the building after that date for a number of years until July 1999. I think it stood empty for a while but planning approved change of use in June 1999 for conversion to 3 x 6 bedroomed student accommodation units. However the one door carries the number 39. Note the vending machine on the Cross street wall that has never been removed. See Image Ripon Street for the same picture in 2011.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38047

There is an OS benchmark Image about 2.5 feet right of the near corner of the building

Built as St Andrews Parsonage House, architect William Dymock Pratt (1854–1916), for Rev Walter Wanstall. Planning was approved in February 1887. (Cross street was laid out 1873 to 1895). In WWII there was a public air raid shelter for 50 people here. St Andrew’s Church was demolished in 1968 and the parsonage became a private house. Occupants include; 1894 both Rev Wanstall and Rev Truman are listed here; 1897-1913 Rev Canon J E Truman; 1919 Rev Robert Walker Watt; 1965 George B Barnes. The electricity sub station remains, with a new roof, but the house was demolished about 1990 to make way for 1-16 Vicarage Court.

There is an OS benchmark Image on #34 Ripon Street

The shop carries a cut bench mark to the right of the window. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2435826 for a close-up and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38045 for details.