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57 (63) (62) Norwich Street
History of 57 Norwich Street
1871
(62)
Urban Flaks, 44, butcher unemployed, b Swaffham
Ann Maria, 39, b Haddenham
Rebecca Ann, 1, b Cambridge
Anna Reeve, lodger, 19, dressmaker, b Soham
James Jake English, lodger, 23, assistant anatomical museum, b Essex
1881
(63) vacant
1891
(63)
Sarah Ann Hilton, widow, 55, b Cambs
Harriet E, 23, schoolmistress, b Cambs
William B, 19, clerk, b Cambridge
Frank Hall, 27, lodger, tailor’s foreman, b London
1901
(63)
James Nunn, 46, grocer’s manager, b Cambridge
Charlotte E, 44, b Cambridge
Lilian M, 24, b Cambridge
Florence A, 11, b Cambridge
Louisa A, 78, mother, widow, living on own means, b Norfolk
1911
Walter Wood, 64, printer at University Press, b Cambridge
Mary Ann, 64, college bedmaker, b London
Sarah Louisa Webb, sister, 47, assistant bedmaker, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Mary, niece, 20, b Cambridge
1936, Blue Book
P.D.James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972:
Norwich Street was a one-way thoroughfare and, initially, Cordelia approached it from the wrong direction. It took her some time to find her way back to Hills Road, past the Roman Catholic Church and down the fourth turning to the right. The street was terraced with small brick houses, obviously early Victorian. Equally obvious, the road was on its way up. Most of the house looked well cared for; the paint on the identical front doors was fresh and bright; lined curtains had replaced the draped lace at the single ground-floor windows and the bases of the walls were scarred where a damp course had been installed. Number fifty-seven had a black front door with the house number painted in white behind the glass panel above… The front door was wide open. Cordelia pressed the bell and stepped tentatively into a narrow white hall. The exterior of the house was immediately familiar to her. From her sixth birthday she had lived for two years in just such a Victorian terraced cottage with Mrs Gibson on the outskirts of Romford. She recognised the steep and narrow staircase immediately ahead, the door on the right leading to the front parlour, the second door set aslant which led to the back parlour and through it to the kitchen and yard. She knew that there would be cupboards and a curved alcove on each side of the fireplace; she knew where to find the door under the stairs ….
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