9 Jeffreys St

Numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 Jeffreys St were built as Molesworth Place, sometimes called Moleworth Place. This set of buildings reached around the corner to Kentish Town Rd, which is where the first buildings in this arrangement were completed in 1821. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Molesworth Place were redesignated as part of Kentish Town Road in 1863, with the rest of the houses becoming part of Jeffrey's St in 1881.

First numbered as 8 Molesworth Place

1825 July Robinson
1826 July Bourne
1827 Jan Bourne
1828 Jan Bourne
1829 empty
1831 Jan Millington
1834 Jan Millington
1841 Sept N Lambert
1842 Sept N Lambert
1844 Sept F Sayer
1846 March Richard Carden
1847 March Richard Carden
1848 Sept Richard Carden
1850 Richard Carden
1851 Sept Richard Carden
1853 Bell
1855 Furnell
1858 Whittingham
1863 Self
1866 Self
1871 Harvey
1875 Stone
1880 Smith
1881 Richard and Elizabeth Smith with Henry (20), William (13), Joseph (11), Samuel (11). Also John (43, cab driver) and Sarah (41) Stanley with Mary (17) and John (16).

1881 Re-numbered as 9 Jeffreys St
1885 W Lind

1941 Joan Fee, late resident of No 9 and born around 1925, bought the house for £950 in 1941. Even by 1978 she only had electricity on the ground floor and had gas-lighting otherwise. She lived in the same house for more than 70 years and had brought up her younger siblings there when her parents died, later living there with her husband Laurence. She was living on Jeffreys St during the Second World War when the other end of the street was hit by a bomb and she clearly remembered the damage to all the windows.

Up until the early 2000s Mr Fee would walk regularly up and down the street each day like a sentinel. The street held a party, turning up with food and drink, to celebrate Joan’s 70 years on the street and spring crocuses were planted under the trees to remember her when she passed away.