Down Your Way – Princes Street

Street Names 1 Minute

photograph published courtesy to Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.

Building on Princes Street dated from about 1876. In Roadways published in 1979, Peter Sheldon and Richard Tomkins state that the name commemorates Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Demolition on the Victorian houses took place in the 1960s. Photograph taken during the 1960/70s redevelopment shows the Courts and in the distance the Police Station, since demolished as well.

Read about some of the residents below:

All photographs published courtesy of Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.

Stephen and Augusta Nicholas

Dabchick Thomas Sawyer

Albert and Elizabeth Beak – safe in the arms of Jesus

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I am a local historian and writer researching the history of Radnor Street Cemetery in Swindon. I have written three books - Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality published by Pen and Sword and The Ladies of Lydiard and West Swindon - What the eye doesn't see written in collaboration with Angela Atkinson and Roger Ogle both published by Hobnob Press.

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