Penny's Yard
Penny's yard
off Addlewell Lane
Penny’s Yard was listed in the 1851 census as being at the end of Addlewell Lane.
It comprised just two dwellings; in the first the husband, 38-year old John Mainsford, was a glove cutter while his wife Mary was a dressmaker and their 16-year old son Charles was a leather dresser.
In the second dwelling
William Duck
was a leather
dresser, his
wife Mary a
glove sewer,
their 10-year
old son Edwin
was a glove
cleaner and
there were also
three other
children ‘at
home’.
