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Luther Road and Station Street – We need a crossing

James Spencer — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:02:23 +0000

I used to live in Rectory Road and now I live in Belstead Avenue. When I was moving I had to make the journey between the two roads a lot and I was always amazed at how hard it was to get across the road at Luther Road and Station Street.

Now I’m an able bodied man in my thirties and can look after myself. However with both Hillside Primary School and Stoke High School, let alone the Sure Start centre either in Belstead Avenue or Maidenhall Approach there are a lot of children who are from the area around Rectory Road who are expected to cross this road every day. Many of these children are very young.

If we want to encourage walking and cut down on the potential for accidents then we need to get a crossing at the part of the road where Luther Road and Station Street meet.

Was there a rectory on Rectory Road?

James Spencer — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:20:54 +0000

Bob Blastock who, as well as being active in a bewildering variety of other local groups, is one of the leading lights in the Over Stoke History group, has told me that the rectory that Rectory Road was named after is actually where the Bridge Ward Social club is now, and that Rectory road was actually built on the grounds of the old rectory. He also pointed out, and this is far better known, that the station that Station Street was named after was actually on Croft Street where the EUR (Eastern Union Railway) pub kept the memory of the station until entertainment licences, smoking bans and the other nannying dictates of our modern state shut it down like so many other pubs.

Does anyone know of any other road names in the ward with an odd history?

Nethaniah Home for the Aged

James Spencer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:47:37 +0000

Another Photograph of Bridge, this one is particularly dear to me as it is around the corner from where I live.

Simon Knott (who does the excellent Suffolk Churches website) has also transcribed the plaques.

There is one correction, later on Simon says that he thinks that the pentecostalist church next door used to be St. Peter’s parish rooms, but I was told by Father Leeder at St. Pancras that this was actually an outstation of St. Pancras’s when St Pancras covered most of Bridge Ward. It may have been both at different times.