Requesting Pre-war Electric Road Photos for my grandma

Hi all,

I am looking for pre-war photographs of Electric Road, North Point, to prove something which my grandmother had been telling me for years.

My grandmother, who unfortunately passed away two years ago, lived on Electric Road before 1940. She told me that, along with some distant relatives rented a flat on Electric Road, and worked at a torch factory in North Point (she could never work out what the factory was called), where she was involved in 'mixing battery powder'.

A strange thing in what she told me is that she used to be woken up by the first tram in the morning that ran along Electric Road - despite myself repeatedly correcting her at the time that trams ran along Kings Road.

Then she told me that trams were not diverted onto Kings Road until the Japanese came.

I made an interview with her about a year before she passed away, recorded on video - I shall have that ripped and uploaded onto the internet.

I would appreciate if anyone could supply photographs, or maps, of Electric Road before the war, that might allow me to see whether my grandmother had been correct in her memories.

It would also be nice if someone could list what torch factories existed at North Point in the 1930s.

Although it is already too late to show these photographs to my grandmother, I could always show them to my mother who remains a sceptic of her mother's recollections!

Many thanks and cheers