Ah, Nina, the strangest & saddest discovery. To-day was such a perfect one, perhaps the last true day of Summer, I threw my gear in the car & sped east. I'll post some pics in a directional 'walk round the square order' order & will give you bad news when I reach the relevant ones:
If you were facing onto the front of the Church, this building would form the beginning of the left hand side of the square Looking north)
Moving on from here we see the complete left hand side & the beginning of the rear section (behind the church) You're relatives lived just out of shot to the right;
This is the view a bit further to the right (facing north) You're folk's house is located at the part facing onto the rear of the church:
Looking back from the far end of the previous pic, this is the view to the west:
Looking up, we see the north side of the church complete with steeple
A turn to the left now & this is the view to the south leg of the square, you're relatives were located around the centre of the row to the left (east)
This is the view your folks would have encountered as they left for the docks of a morning:
Directly behind you is the spot that they would be looking from:
A more distant view:
And now we get to the spooky bit..The door to the left is No.22, the door to the right is No.24
What happened to No.23! No idea, it just plumb ain't there. I walked back around the whole square, it does not exist.
Now remember what has been said before, that the row to the rear of the church (which should incorporate 23) is a new build. It is possible that the house numbers have been moved from their original positions (this would still not explain the missing No.23), it is also possible that you're folks front door was on the other side of the above building, ie, we are looking at the rear wall, is it possible that the odd No's so existed & the even No's faced the square,
Why though on the rebuild, miss out No.23? The other option would be that the north enclosure of the square never existed at all until the new build, if so, were the the hell was the original location of No.23? Crusty, are you still a-roaming?
Here is a detail of the window section from the viewpoint of No's 22/24, I cannot at this time state that this stained glass is an original feature.
Further to the left (south) of No's 22/24 this would be the view:
A tad further to the left:
Looking back from this position we can see to No’s 22/24:
Turning around again we see the last building on the southern end of the square (to the right from the front of the church, obviously it was once a Tannery:
Some details of the above building:
I'll deal next with the front of the church and the details contained therein, I will also include the views to the west & the changes that have taken place there too.