All Lost Properties – By Road


Property: 40 Alcester Street ln year: 1881

Occupant: Charles Glover Huins aged:  49  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Builder & Contractor – employing 17 men & 5 boys

Notes: Wife Ann (50) plus 3 working children + 1 niece + 1 apprentice at home. Next door lived their son Thomas Huins. On the 1871 census they lived in Red Lion Street, Redditch at the Carpenters Shop. On the 1891 census they lived in Evesham Street. In the 1873 Littlebury’s Gazetteer and Directory of Worcestershire Charles was classed as Builder, Contractor, Carpenter, Joiner & Coffin Maker, Red Lion Street and Alcester Street.

Source: JC – Census