Wednesday 8th December 2010
There was even more snow today, but this did not deter the members of the group from coming along to Timespan to another research session - they're a hardy lot you know!
Members of the group, Mike and Gerry Wood have approached their research in two different ways and they are both having positive results.
Mike (Originally from South Shields) has been researching the houses and past inhabitants of Shore Street, along with David Cowie. Their research has shown that the east part of Shore Street was the first street to be built in the new village of Helmsdale around c1814. There were several families living in this street in the past, as recorded by David Cowie, but the population declined as many of the older curing yard buildings and accompanying houses were knocked down in the last century.
Mike has been using a computer package to create a 3D virtual model of what Shore Street looked like from the very earliest maps and images. He has already drawn up the 3D image of the old curing yard at the west end of Shore Street (later converted into the Timespan Museum). Mike is interested in the fish packaging processes that took place in the curing yard and plans to include this detail in his model - this really is a first for Timespan, well done!
Gerry has had some success of her own to boast about. She is researching Lilleshall Street and has just found out the location of her Great-grandfather's house. She used local knowledge from local resident Anne Sinclair, as well as the information on the Valuation Rolls and OS maps. The house is now called Westgate, but it used to be owned by her Great-uncle, Charles Gordon, who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada from c1880s to the late 1920s.
Mike and Gerry Wood at today's research session
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