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

[modamuzesi]

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!

 

[Pinkcoke]

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

 

[retro ruth]

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.

 

[Pinkcoke]

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

 

[retro ruth]

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.

 

[retro ruth]

Here you go, its listed here that Henrietta Street W1 became Henrietta Place, sometime between 1929 and 1945, and most likely between 1st January 1936 and 1st July 1939.

http://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/Streets/Old_to_New_London_Street_Name_Changes.htm

Not that it helps much to find out about Norman!

 

[modamuzesi]

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