Above, Mark’s grandmother Louisa Kidd (nee Stock) and classmates. Louisa was born in 1900.

Evelyn Kidd was presented with this book ‘for good conduct and regular attendance’ at the local Sunday school.

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Louisa Kidd (nee Stock) and classmates, early 1900s

The photos on this page were contributed by Mark Turner, whose family lived on Kidd’s Terrace.

Above, Mark’s grandmother Louisa Kidd (nee Stock) and classmates. Louisa was born in 1900.

Evelyn Kidd was presented with this book ‘for good conduct and regular attendance’ at the local Sunday school.

Bookplate of book presented to Evelyn Kidd at Layerthorpe Sunday School, 1915

On the Kidd’s Terrace page, Mark left a comment mentioning that his great grandfather Henry Kidd built the terrace. Henry was a Freeman of York, and this photo shows one of the documents relating to this, dating from 1838.

Henry Kidd of Layerthorpe, Freeman of York document

Mark says this is ‘my mum aunt & uncle plus 1, I think in Kidds Terrace’.

Kidd family in the 1930s, probably at Kidd’s Terrace

Kidd’s Terrace street photo, maybe dating from the end of the First World War?

Kidd’s Terrace street photo

Many families from the Layerthorpe area moved elsewhere, many to Tang Hall. This photo shows one of the coronation parties there in 1937.

Tang Hall coronation party, 1937

Many thanks to Mark Turner for sending these images.

David lived at 7 Kidd’s Terrace from 1940 to 1967 (when the houses were demolished):

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© City of York Council: York Images

Just the one photo of Kidd’s Terrace, from the city archives. How it looked in the 1950s, from Hallfield Road. (Update: see also Kidd’s Terrace and Kidd family photos.)

David lived at 7 Kidd’s Terrace from 1940 to 1967 (when the houses were demolished):

Our house had front room, living room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms. Outside toilet in yard, with a large brick shed which had originally had a brick built wash boiler fuelled by a fire. We overlooked the Ropewalk & towards the rear of the Corporation Depot. We had of course full electric & water services.

… Landlady was Eliza Irvine who lived at 26 Kidd’s Tce. She was a relative of the Kidd family who had originally built the houses c.1860. & other members of that family either lived and/or owned houses in the Terrace, which had 28 houses in total.