Mapping 1

Above - the above map was surveyed in October 1953 but revised in April 1971 by which time, as can be seen, Ruston Close appears as a cleared site. The electoral register for 1970 indicates that there were still no fewer than seventy-four persons registered to vote in Ruston Close at the qualifying date, whereas for the 1971 edition (the qualifying date for that register being 10 October 1970) there were just four names left. As can also be seen, the shape of the site is still clearly identifiable, allowing the chosen datum point to be shown, although the small remaining stretch of the road still called Ruston Close is by now just a stub to the northeastern side of the site. The area of the erstwhile James Bartle’s Ironworks is identified as a Corporation Depot. In the bottom right-hand grid can be seen 11 St Mark’s Road - the then home of the Probert/Evans family and where Timothy Evans first lived with Beryl after they were married and before the fateful move, at Easter 1948, to the top two rooms at 10 Rillington Place.

Below - in the extracts below, a grid section of the map above is reproduced alongside the same section from the 1996 map (both at a scale of 1:1250) and with the location of the datum point transferred onto the modern layout:

Below - in the diagram below, the first map (revised in 1971) has been overlaid with a similar section from the 1996 map but with sufficient transparency to allow both to be seen and therefore compared. Apart from the square grids themselves, the yellow-shaded areas indicate where accurate registration as between the two maps has been attempted. The pink-shaded area shows the whole site that once contained Rillington Place (Ruston Close) including the roadway itself together with the houses from nos 1 - 10 on the south side and nos 11 - 20 on the north side. As no. 10 occupied the southwesternmost corner of the site, its location in relation to the modern buildings can be discerned.