Local Common Lodging Houses

With the demand for workers in the local mills, there was a need for accommodation. Many individual households took in one or more lodgers or boarders. The Common Lodging Houses were set up to accommodate the others.

This Foldout lists some registered keepers of Common Lodging Houses in Halifax:

• Henry Wilson at 9 Smithy Street  (New Model) [108 lodgers]
• Grace Heaton at 47 and 49 Winding Road  [in November 1902]
• Frank Dobson at 47 and 49 Winding Road  [in June 1903]

Other people mentioned as Keepers of Lodging House were

• Horace T. Vere at 6 Smithy Street, Halifax [1881]

On 6th July 1903, Halifax Watch Committee published Schedules stating the maximum number of Lodgers authorised to be received at any one time into the Common Lodging Houses within the Borough, and into each of the several rooms specified in the Schedules referred to, be approved, and that Notices thereof be given to the Keepers of Common Lodging Houses

• John Allen at 11 Hoyland's Passage [25 lodgers]
• Mary Barry at 8 King Street [8 lodgers]
• Thomas Capron at 60 Copley Street [15 lodgers]
• Patrick Coady at Smithy Street [24 lodgers]
• Frank Dobson at 47 Winding Road [59  lodgers]
• Benjamin Fawcett at 3 Malt Shovel Yard [15 lodgers]
• John Flannigan at 3 Chapel Fold [33 lodgers]
• Thomas Flannigan at 55 Woolshops [53 lodgers]
• John Henry Jagger at 34 and 36 Winding  Road [54 lodgers]
• Charles Lockwood at 8 Charles Street [20 lodgers]
• William Pendleton at 21 King Street [10 lodgers]
• Edgar Ratcliffe at 18a King Street [122 lodgers]
• Benjamin Suthers at Winding Road [74 lodgers]
• Mary Ann Swaine at 5 and 7 Smithy Street [44 lodgers]
• Henry Walsh at Smithy Street [50 lodgers]
• Henry Wilson at 9 Smithy Street  (New Model) [261 lodgers]

In May 1904, amendments included

• John Allen now at 12 Chapeltown
• Benjamin Suthers was now at 9 Crossley Terrace
• Patrick Coady was now at 7 Charles Street
• Thomas Cannon at 4 Smithy Yard, Haley Hill

This & associated entries use material contributed by Alan Longbottom

Page Ref: MMC17

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