28 Jeffreys Street

Numbered as 16 Jeffreys Street

1847 March built but empty
1848 Sept J Fretwell
1850 J Fretwell
1851 William Fisher
1853 J Chapman
1855 Groom
1858 Groom
1863 Gray
1866 Gray
1871 Barnett
1875 Whittaker
1880 H Sear

1881 Joseph (42, London School Board Officer) and Mary Seat. With children Elizabeth (17), Mary (9). Also Samuel Bruce (33, clerk), George Bushell (21, cabman) Sarah Rawlison (66, laundress) and daughter Eleanor (39, laundress), and Richard and Francis Pridgeon.

1881 Re-numbered as 28 Jeffreys Street
1885 H Lambert

2000s Singer Amy Winehouse, whose talent, musical phrasing and performance has been compared favourably to Ella Fitzgerald, lived in the upper floors of number 28 when the album ‘Frank’ came out (2003) and in the early days of her career. The apartment is accessed and addressed through the back door from Jeffrey’s Place. As her fame grew she moved to the end of Prowse Place, where Jeffreys Street residents had to squeeze past the constant paparazzi but were sometimes treated to the amplified sound of her singing. She is fondly remembered by neighbours.