Bradford Voting Registers notes

BRADFORD VOTING REGISTERS:
Bradford Voting Registers notes

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These Registers are presented in 7 different sections, with a total of four different formats:

1853-1867, completely alphabetical by surname for the whole of Bradford, Bowling, Horton and Manningham townships.
1868-1878, alphabetical by surname by wards for the above townships.
1881-1883, as above but wards split because of the number of voters and additional wards in 1883.
1884-1915 (4 sections), wards split, streets given in alphabetical order, then by house number

These registers came to me as approximately 14 bookshelf feet of books. They were scanned over a long period and then OCRd. I wrote a heap of software to detect and correct errors and then asked Lin Duke if she would have a look at doing the boring job of proof reading the outputs of my software. This she did! There are well over 2,500,000 entries in these registers! I then wrote more software to detect problems with the original data such as Pembroke road instead of Pembroke street etc., the software also checked the voting number sequences.

Missing from these pages are the lists of voters who were lodgers (less than 1% of the voters), this is because the format of these is totally different to the rest of the registers and the software involved became too complex for it to be worth my while to continue with it.

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As there is interest in the location of the relevant roads/streets/places etc. given in the registers, I tried to find the location of the nearly 2,900 items within the Borough of Bradford. I managed 2,800 of these but there are still some I cannot find - there's a list of these below, can you help?

Terraces: these have been hard work! Terraces can be either the name of a road, or a terrace of houses in a road (Leeds road in particular).
Sometimes

The registers from 1884 onwards are divided into Wards and then streets/roads etc. I have linked each of these streets/roads(where known) to the National Library of Scotland's maps. When you click on a link it will take you to the relevant position on both the 25" map from the early 1900s and the Bing Hybrid modern satellite view of the same area. Some of the roads etc. are not marked on either map, but the position is correct (for instance those now buried under what was Midland Station).
The centre of the map you will see is on the third letter of the name of the road/street (give or take 5 metres on the ground) and so if you mark the position of a known street (I used a felt tip pen) then you will be able to locate places not named on the maps.
Be aware that you can change the maps and that the mouse scroll wheel will zoom you in and out.

This list contains all of the streets/roads etc. (inlcuding links to the maps) in the registers within the Borough of Bradford (as at 1915), including those below that I cannot find.

The list of Bradford street/road names that I can't find:
All of the street/road names below are mentioned in the Voting Registers for Bradford between 1853 and 1915.
I have found the location of over 2,800 of these, but try as I might, I can't find any of those below.
A lot of them are mentioned in the Post Office directories street index, but not in the trade directory section. Where mentioned, I have added the road/street name.
If you know or can find any of these, please let me have a grid ref or a map image showing it/them.
The name needs to be precise - for instance I need West Squire lane and not Squire lane (though they may actually be one and the same).
All of these are in Bradford borough area as it was in 1915.
Please drop me a line if you can help via the contact link at the bottom of the page.
Many thanks, Colin Hinson.

BENTLEY FOLD    West Bowling ward 1912-1915
CARLTON COTTAGE Heaton Ward     1886-1894
CARLTON RISE    Heaton ward 1890-1906
CARTWRIGHT TERRACE    Stanacre place, East ward 1912,1914
CLARKSON STREET    Bowling back lane, South Ward 1868-1886
COTE FIELD     Allerton ward. 1886-1915, always only no. 10
CROSS HILL HEAD    Heaton ward 1886-1912
CUMBERLAND MOUNT     Legrams lane, Great Horton ward 1903-5
DILLON STREET     Vincent street, West ward 1896-1898
ELL CLIFFE     Allerton ward 1889-1906
EMM LANE TOP    Heaton ward 1886-1889
FAIRBANK FOLD    Bradford Moor ward 1906 parochial
FAR PARK    Heaton ward 1898
GRANGEFIELD AVENUE    Thornbury. Donald Neilson lived here, but I can't find it!! Bradford Moor ward 1906-1915
GREENCLIFFE VILLAS    Otley road, East ward 1875-1914
GREENCLIFFE VILLA    East ward 1873-1915
GREENWOOD SQUARE    West ward1893-1897
GREENWOOD YARD     Westgate, West ward 1875, 1881-2, 1889-1890, 1898
GREENWOOD'S YARD    see above
GROVE VIEW    64 Keighley road, Bolton ward 1886-1905
HEALEY STREET     New Cross street, West ward 1894-1898
HEATON GARDENS    Heaton ward 1886-1897
HOLYWELL TERRACE     Manningham lane, Manningham ward 1896-1897 parochial
HOOTON STREET    only one person lived there Valley road, Bolton ward 1884-1890
HORSFALL COURT    North wing, Bolton ward 1882-1885
ILLINGWORTH COURT    Westgate, West ward 1856-1896
JACKSON FOLD    West ward 1868-1885
JOHNSON COURT    Bradford moor, South ward 1868-1915
KIRKGATE (NEW)    North ward 1884-1887, 1890
KITCHEN SQUARE    South ward 1874-1886
LITTLE MOOR    Allerton, Allerton ward 1886-1915
MOODY SQUARE    Bowling ward 1868-1884
MYRTLE BANK    Heaton ward 1886-1915
NORTH HOLT    Heaton ward1886-1914
NORTHBROOK COURT    North Brook street, North ward 1868-1915
OLD IVY    Allerton (House), Allerton ward 1886-1904
OLD LANE    Little Horton and West Bowling wards 1853-1915
OLD ROAD (ALLERTON)    Allerton ward 1905-1911
OLD RUFF    Allerton ward 1886-1896
PARK VIEW    Avenue road, and Lister lane, Heaton ward 1867-1915
PARSONAGE GROVE    Sticker lane (people seem to be in St. Mary's road at same numbers in 1892) Bradford Moor ward 1878-1891
PEMBERTON ROAD    Listerhills ward 1897-1898
QUEENS TERRACE    1899 Pchl, Reginald street, West Bowling ward 1899 Parochial
RIFLE COURT    Birksland street, South ward 1868-1887
SAGAR FOLD    aka Sagar's fold. Ley Top Lane, Allerton, Allerton ward 1886-1915
SANDY LANE BOTTOM     Cottingley road, Allerton, Allerton ward 1886-1897
SCHOOL COURT    North Wing, North ward 1872-1887
SHAW'S YARD    Vicar lane, West ward 1868-1915
SMITHY ROW    Bradford moor, Bradford moor ward 1868-1896
SPINK'S YARD    Westgate, West ward 1877-1893
ST. MARGARET'S ROAD (BACK)    Great Horton ward 1915
ST. PAUL'S PARSONAGE    Heaton ward 1858-1891
STEEL'S YARD    Westgate, West ward 1861-1915
STOCKS YARD    Heaton ward1893
STONE STREET (HEATON)    
STONEY    
THORNHILL VILLAS    Leeds road, Thornbury, Bradford Moor ward 1886-1915
VIEWS ROW    (see above ??)
WEST SQUIRE LANE    Allerton road, Allerton ward 1853-1915
WEST VIEW HOUSE    Allerton ward 1867-1912
WESTHOLME    Listerhills ward 1863-1915
WHITE ABBEY ROAD (BACK)    Manningham ward1884
WILMOT STREET    Wakefield road, East Bowling ward 1902
WOODVILLE    East ward 1887-1915
BROW    Here to fix problems with places such as Pykeley Brow
BAPTIST CHAPEL, LEEDS ROAD    90

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