.......................................The
Aitchison Home For Over Forty Years
5
Princes Street was the principle address in St Pancras for the Aitchison
and Musgrove family for over forty years. The earliest reference we've found
is an 1820's London Directory for George Aitchison
cabinet maker living
at 5 Hertford Street, the southern end of which was renamed Princes Street
in the early 1840's. Princes Street was subsequently renamed Whitfield Street
in 1868. Number five (now 102) is the right half of the white painted house
which is numbered 102 and 104. The original doorway for 102
(extreme right of building) was filled in at a later date when
both properties were converted into ten flats with access through
the doorway of 104.The houses to the left are elegant Georgian
and are listed. In
WW2 a bomb dropped on
the corner of Whitfield Street and Maple Street which resulted
in properties between 94 and 100 Whitfield Street being destroyed.
A garage and petrol station were built on the site (see photo
below). They were subsequently redeveloped into a modern apartment
block named Irvine Court in the 1980's. 102 to 110
were only slightly bomb damaged.
You can see the tops of the left hand houses have been rebuilt
The map below dates from about 1800 and shows number
5 Hertford street highlighted
in green.
|