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    Default 3 Addison Rd. S Norwoo1920/25 - no elec. roll

    Hello, I am looking for the incumbent Greengrocer at 3 Addison Road, South Norwood, in the period 1920 to 25. I have trawled online and genealogy sites but can only fine the ones there in the 1911 census. There are no electoral rolls on online sites for the 1920s that I can find anyway. Can anyone help with this please. The answer will be a big key for the locked door in my brickwall.. to all my metaphors. Thanks Prue

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    Not the years you were looking for so may not be of any help.

    No names mentioned in this first article.

    The Times (London, England), Saturday,
    January 17, 1920
    Nos 3 - 11 [odd] Addison Road, South Norwood - An excellent corner shop , with living rooms over, yard and stabling, and four weekly houses in this busy and well letting neighbourhood. Let and producing £108 4s per annum. Lease 48 years. Ground rent £18.
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    The below article does not state a shop/house number but does say he is a greengrocer, how many were on that street i have idea.

    Published: Friday 31 July 1931
    Newspaper: Norwood News

    owned by Arthur Player (iv), greengrocer, Addison-road, South Norwood. Player was charged with having tortured the animal by winking it while in an unfit state

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    I believe that census's are locked for 100 years so it'll be at least 2021 until the next census is released online.

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    Norwood News, 9 Sep 1921
    "If you want to ride like that, you had better wear bloomers, you know" Mr S G Eldridge, clerk to the Croydon magstrates, told Olive Burrows, a girl of about 16, of 3 Addison-Road, South Norwood, at Croydon Police Court on Tuesday".

    She had been riding pillion on the motor cycle of a Frederick William Robarts of 81 Dundee Road, South Norwood. Her skirt had obscured the rear number plate.
    "dyfal donc a dyr y garreg"

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    Quote Originally Posted by helachau View Post
    Norwood News, 9 Sep 1921
    "If you want to ride like that, you had better wear bloomers, you know" Mr S G Eldridge, clerk to the Croydon magstrates, told Olive Burrows, a girl of about 16, of 3 Addison-Road, South Norwood, at Croydon Police Court on Tuesday".

    She had been riding pillion on the motor cycle of a Frederick William Robarts of 81 Dundee Road, South Norwood. Her skirt had obscured the rear number plate.
    I note you've already have this info. from a separate site
    "dyfal donc a dyr y garreg"

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    Pru

    Not sure what sites you have looked but the site I use (Ancestry) has Electoral Registers for London from 1832 to 1965. Unfortunately without a surname it means searching on the address and trawling through.

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    Unfortunately, South Norwood was not in London in the 1920s.

    The Surrey collection on Ancestry won't help either because South Norwood was under Croydon which was a county borough.

    The most extensive online collection of electoral registers is the British Library collection on Findmypast. Unfortunately the British Library itself only has a modest collection of registers from before WW2.

    There is a good collection of electoral registers at the Museum of Croydon...

    https://www.museumofcroydon.com/asset...or_website.pdf

    I wouldn't have thought Croydon was an impossibly difficult journey from West Sussex.

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