Harriett Blissett Images

HARRIET ELIZABETH BLISSETT (1889) IMAGES

The photo below was taken at Ray's wedding in 1942, Harriett's Son.

This is the only photo i have found of Harriett, she is 2nd from the right.

Ellen (Joan's Friend), Flo (Joan's Friend), Joe, Ray & Joan, Henry Almond & Eddie, Harriet Kirk - nee Blissett (Ray's Mum), Mable (Joan's old babysitter)

Corner of Catherine Street & Cranbourne Street.

Frederick & Harriet lived at 52 Catherine Street for a while.

Frederick, Harriet's Husband.

Snippet of Birth Certificate of Harriett Elizabeth Blisset. Born 19th March 1889 at the Union Workhouse, Great Bowden.

In 1839 the old workhouse was sold by the Commissioners to defray Harborough's share of the new unionworkhouse, which had been built in 1836-7 in Great Bowden township, at the north end of Harborough town. ~ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp133-153

Market Harborough workhouse entrance, c.1900.

*For more info go to http://www.workhouses.org.uk/MarketHarborough/

Martin Street Leicester where Frederick & Harriett lived in a small 2 up - 2 down house.

In the picture below you can see the Toll Gate that was placed at one end.

All the family was packed into this tiny house before they moved to Braunstone.

The Tollgate on Martin Street (From the Leicester Mercury)

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