Hope’s Terrace

Hope’s Terrace, situated off East Street, has been demolished probably in the 1930’s when grants were made to replace sub-standard overcrowded housing. Eric Till described it as “A squalid row of slum dwellings”.In the early 20th Century, Numbers 5 to 12 were three and four room houses with courtyards behind. Numbers 1 to 4 had been joined together as Number 1 which had 8 rooms and seems to have been used as a boarding house.
The occupants were for the most part labourers working in industries in the town – brewing, iron works etc.Some of the houses had only a couple of occupants but most had many – Number 8 housed 12 in 3 rooms in 1901 and Number 6 housed 10 in 4 rooms in 1911.With over 50 people living along the Terrace in 1911 it would have been a busy place but few occupants stayed there very long.

East Street looking East from bottom of Recreation Ground Road. Hope’s Terrace was behind these houses.

Hope’s Terrace, East Street, Stamford