Jubilee Street in Woolston – Named after the Queen’s Jubilee Memorial Home in Woolston. In 1887 the Charitable Aid Board purchased a section of six acres at Woolston, belonging to Mr Hawker, as a site for the Jubilee Memorial Home. The Home was for the “aged poor” and was built to commemorate Queen Victoria’s 50th anniversary on the British throne (1887). It was opened in 1888 and has now been disestablished. Jubilee Street was named in 1889. First appears in street directories in 1890.
A small amount of information from the library website. The earliest entry that I found on Papers Past was in 1889 when the road board said that the road leading from Princess Street to Jubilee Home is now formed and metalled and to be called Jubilee Street. In 1894 a man was fined for letting his horse wander in the street. Between 1911 and 1914 there were drainage issues mostly from one property. There were several streets called Jubilee Street and they were in Addington, Bromley, Sydenham and North New Brighton. There was one in Linwood but that is probably the Bromley one. The one in Addington became Barrie Street.
Over the years it was mostly ads and death notices and obviously the Jubilee Home was frequently mentioned. From the 1960s onwards it was mostly industries that were mentioned especially Bowron Tanneries Ltd. Tom Mcguigan grew up on this street for those old enough to remember. AI was no help when searching for Tom McGuigan as it said that there wasn’t anyone with that name.
St Luke’s Chapel was mentioned in relationship to death notices.
The street now only has businesses here but at the Rutherford Street end there are a couple of abandoned houses.
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