14) Later Developments in Richard Cooper Street and 14A) Phoenix St. Residents 1907/1911 (even nos)
Early title deeds deposited at Goole Reference Library reveal the purchase of further land and how the development of RC Street continued.
The third equal part of the Marsh Field Close, acquired by Richard Duckels of Hook in 1799, passed down the family. After his death in 1834, it was inherited by his son - also Richard Duckels. When he died on 1 November 1886, these 2 acres 1 rood and 13 perches of land passed to his son - Richard Duckles Ashton (this spelling of "Duckles", instead of "Duckels" as previously, may have been inter-changeable). The Aire & Calder Navigation Trustees paid £20 for RDA's portion of the Hook Bank on 6 April 1888 and on 26 May 1888 Richard Cooper bought the land, freed from responsibility for upkeep of the flood barrier for £1,650.
It was bounded by other part of the said Close belonging to RC on the North, and by property belonging to Richard Fleeman on the South, by the high road from Hook to Goole on the East and by a strip of land belonging to John Bennett on the West.
On 16 February 1889 Richard Cooper paid John Bennett £30 for a narrow strip of ground running across the West side of this Close and lying between the end of a certain other street called Carlisle Terrace, together with the right to pass over and along a street called Back Argyle Street.
This strip was undoubtedly the missing piece RC needed to complete Nos. 1, 3 and 5 RC Street.
Between June 1892 and 1 January 1896, RC used his landholding as security for bank borrowings. However, on 31 December 1895 he re-negotiated his loans by a private arrangement between himself and other parties, who may have been relatives (one, John Jackson Tate of Downes Grounds Farm, Airmyn bearing the same surname as Mr. Cooper's late wife before her marriage). The security for this loan was the land he sold in 1906 - see section 15).
The plan attached to the Indenture dated 31 December 1895 shows the former Marsh Field Close landowners whose boundaries then were contiguous with Richard Cooper's land and property. Cooper's ownership of the housing in PHOENIX STREET appears to relate only to the ODD-NUMBERED properties. The even-numbered houses (on the northern side of Phoenix Street) and ownership of the land and property on either side of the archway - leading to the former passage between Phoenix St and the south side of Marshfield Road - is marked differently.
Two houses on the west (town) side of the Phoenix Street archway together with one on the east (river) side, are shown as a block containing 255 sq. yds. (51' x 46'6" including the full width of the rear alleyway). This suggests that plot and the three properties on it had been sold as a single holding. These three properties were numbers 30 and 32 (on the town side of the archway) and 34. The sites on either side of this small block are marked "E. P. Atkinson", as is the property in Marshfield on the east side of another still undeveloped plot in that street, containing 564 square yards including the narrow passageway bisecting it. The property in Marshfield to the west is marked "Robert Jackson".
It may have been Captain E. P. Atkinson, then, who owned some or all the remaining Phoenix Street properties at that time i.e. Nos. 4 - 40. The undeveloped plot in Marshfield remained open long after that side of the road had been built up. Eventually two houses, 28 and 30 Marshfield Road, were erected c.1906. The house owned by Captain E. P. Atkinson was 32 Marshfield Road and Robert Jackson owned three small terraced cottages Nos. 22, 24 and 26 Marshfield Road. Captain Atkinson is known to have had tenants in Phoenix Street, who sent flowers on his death. What is not known is how many tenanted properties he rented out in Phoenix Street. There do seem to have been several in that first phase of development.
14.A)
RESIDENTS IN PHOENIX STREET 1907
Even Nos:
Following the suggestion made above, that some of the even-numbered properties in Phoenix Street may have belonged to Captain E. P. Atkinson, these are the names of 1907 and 1911 residents on that side (the first northern properties backing on to Marshfield Road).
2. (The Shop) Grace Phillips
4.
6. Richard Austwick (see Section 26 re 22 Phoenix Street, Stephen Austwick 30/7/2010)
8. William Hedley, Shipwright
10. F. King
12. Joe Coates
14.
16. J. E. Mummery
18. Jos. Briars
20. Annie (should it be Hannah?) Spence
22. Thos. Chester
24. J. W. Sutherby, Dock Labourer
26. A. Smith
28. John Brown
30.
32. Geo. Pidd, Mariner
34. Geo. H. Taylor
36. Robert Nichol
38.
40. Matthew Brook
RESIDENTS IN PHOENIX STREET 1911
Even Nos.
2. (The Shop) Esther Darley
4.
6. R. Austwick
8. F. Duckels
10. D. Bryars
12. Violetta Coates
14. J. Hutchinson
16. J. E. Mummery
18.
20. Hannah Spence
22. R. Chester
24. J. W. Sutherby
26. I. Hebden
28. J. Brown
30. T. Priestley
32.
34. W. Houseman
36. W. H. Hatch
38. W. E. Hebden
40. H. Wilcox
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