 They lived at 60 Trinity Church Square from 1849–52.They had previously lived nearby at 3 Montague Terrace (now 8 Brockham Street), where Belcher was born in 1841.The son was articled with his father, spending two years in France from 1862, where he studied contemporary architecture, apparently more concerned with that promoted by Baron Haussman and Emperor Napoleon III, than historic buildings.