Coleswood Road
A gallery of some of the older houses
By Rosemary Ross
In preparation for the Society's exhibition "Bowling Alley to Southdown" on 3 September 2016, photos of some of the older houses were taken - see the sequence below, which starts with even numbers on the east side of the road.
We are promised more information about Coronation Cottages (4a/4beta), and hope that other residents will look out old deeds, photos or anecdotes about this road, which seems to have been established during the 1890s.
Among documents recently donated from the collection of maps and architectural drawings by Arthur & Stanley Salisbury, were designs for "Houses in Coleswood Road", on the west side of the road, and nearly opposite Kingcroft Road - but it seems that their plans were not accepted: 17-35 Coleswood Road, marked with ** were built instead.
Designs for houses in Coleswood road, two pair at each end of a terrace, by A & S Salisbury 1925
LHS archives, photo of plan in Salisbury map case.
Design for houses in Coleswood Road - pair of houses at the centre of a group, by A & S Salisbury, 1925
LHS archives, photo of plan in Salisbury map case.
(hover over a photo to see the house numbers)