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5 King’s Parade

History of 5 King's Parade

1851

Harriett Rushbrook, widow, 50, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge

1913

Typewriting Bureau, F D Sell, manager

1924

Percy Ashman started work here. In 1981 (CWN 2nd April) he recalled that in the 1920s most of ‘the boys’ used to wear grey flannel bags which cost 35s a pair. They used a lot of material and Mr Plenderleith was determined to phase them out. “He made an extra wide pair for a newspaperman called Lightening who used to go round the town shouting his head off. That killed them off with undergraduates.”

1962

George Plenderleith, tailors

1981

Cambridge Classical Records

2018

Nomads

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