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Please help to identify 30's English label "Norman"

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Vintage Fashion - Ask Questions Get Answers' started by modamuzesi, Jul 12, 2016.

  1. modamuzesi

    modamuzesi Registered Guest

    Hi

    I got a 1930's silk chiffon bias cut dress with label : 'Norman / 14a Henrietta Street /Cavendish Square W.I.'
    First I though it might be an early Norman Hartnell label but couldn't find anything about it.

    I appreciate any help.
    Thank you!
     

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  2. Pinkcoke

    Pinkcoke Alumni

    I looked but couldn't get any results for 14A Henrietta street. Only that 14 Henrietta street has been owned (or long term leased) by a large and reknown publishers for some 75 years+. Clearly the flat 'a' was added to this address much later. If you can look at some form of national address record finding out when that address was created may help.
    One book result I got but couldn't read that may contain the necessary information is here, it is available in libraries:
    http://www.worldcat.org/title/annals-of-covent-garden-and-its-neighbourhood/oclc/317207007
     
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  3. Retro Ruth

    Retro Ruth VFG Member Staff Member

    Oddly though Henrietta Street is not on Cavendish square. Henrietta Place is on Cavendish square W1 and Henrietta Street is nowhere near, in WC2. I wonder whether the street names have changed, or whether the label was incorrect at the time.
     
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  4. Pinkcoke

    Pinkcoke Alumni

    Ruth they appear to be different Henrietta streets.

    This is a letter from 1928 addressed Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square:
    https://repository.royalholloway.ac...5-4ffa-96a7-4db215973293/1/BC_AL_332_1_49.pdf

    and this excerpt from 'London past and present' lists them all! with a bit more info, though largely too early for our purposes:
    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iwOT78ZYXhAC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=Henrietta street cavendish&source=bl&ots=sji0uk5Xvs&sig=_9pPb1bK5XE3Bd0BgkrMtKNKrX4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWl7jV2_DNAhUpDcAKHahzCXsQ6AEISTAI#v=onepage&q=Henrietta street cavendish&f=false
    henrietta street.JPG
     
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  5. Retro Ruth

    Retro Ruth VFG Member Staff Member

    The street name must have changed at some point then, because the street that runs from the South East Corner of Cavendish Square to Marylebone Lane, is now called Henrietta Place.
     
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    Retro Ruth VFG Member Staff Member

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  7. modamuzesi

    modamuzesi Registered Guest

    Thank you Melanie & Ruth!
    I'm attaching photos of the dress incase you're curious how does it look like.
     

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