More about The Archive Project

At the beginning of the year we collected information about Selby Road from the Kelly's & Wright's Directories* held in the Nottinghamshire Archive. These covered the period 1913-1956. We were able to present a huge spread sheet showing the head of household for every property, as it was built and included in the Directory, at the Royal Wedding Street Party, [about 200 residents attending] and at Selby Road Open Gardens 2011. The latter raised £3,329:52p for Friary Drop-In the local Support Centre for the Homeless.

*Note: These Directories document the people living in Nottinghamshire in a similar way to a telephone directory- but started before the invention of the telephone.You can trace people by their name, road or business.

In October  we leafleted Selby Road about the Archive and put a small article in Local News, a local free paper. To date we have had 20 direct contacts from past and current residents. In  addition we have had other 11 contacts passed on to us from christmas card lists and the sending on of leaflets. Today we had a contact from a couple who moved to Bristol some years ago. We are now working with the electoral rolls to find out the names of everyone on Selby Road who was eligible to vote since 1956. These records allow us to add first names and the record of wives, servants and children over 21 and later 18 to the Archive.

We still need contact with anyone who has lived or lives on Selby Road, or had relatives or friends here even if was only for a short time . We have 132 houses and hundreds of occupants to track. Please help if you can.

Personal stories will be added to this blog only when they have been double checked and cleared for publication.

During WWI for the first time it was possible for people to vote in Elections [If they were male and over 21] even if they were not living at home.  At this time there were only 10 houses on Selby Road and the following residents were listed.
The Absentee Voters List -Rushcliffe Division 1914-18
Selby Road
No.11  BOYES            Robert William        Sec. Lieutenant        2nd Leinsters
No.17  BERRY            William Ernest         86720 Cadet 3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps 20
                                                                                      Officers Cadet E. Company
No.2    NEWTON        Frank Oscar
No.7    JONES             Frank Ernest           75368 Sapper D.D. Signals
No.1    BUTTRUM       Frank Peet             Acting-Sgt. Royal Army Medical Corps.

Sadly Clifford Prosser [No.15] lost his life in this war and is commemorated on the War Memorial. See previous post.

No 19 Selby Road in WWI

Owned by the Gisborne Family

Archive information provided in this post by Gary Wood  and Gerald Gisborne.