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High Road, Whetstone
Number 1300 was Smith's Cottages which were demolished around 1936 (Percy Reboul Collection)
Picture added on 13 November 2009 at 14:10
My ancestor William Smith was living here in the 1850s and died here in 1855, as did his daughter Eliza Briers in 1857 (so I assume her widowed mother was still there then). Why were they called Smith's Cottages, and who owned them?
Added by Richard Mathews on 27 August 2025
Whetstone
