74 Sturton Street

A Pianoforte Porter

1881

The Sword family.

James Sword, head, married, 28, Cambridge Borough Police Constable, b. Hetherstell, Norfolk
Elizabeth Ann Sword, wife, married, 31, b. Gt Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
William James Sword, son, 7, scholar, b. Cambridge
Arthur John Sword, son, 6, scholar, b. Cambridge
Thomas O. Sword, son, 3, b. Cambridge
Herbert Sword, son, 1, b. Cambridge

By 1891 the Swords had moved a few doors away to 82 Sturton Street, and had two more children who are included in the census, Annie, daughter, aged 6 & Frederick, son, aged 4.

1891

Charles Plummer, 25, Pianoforte Porter, b. Cambridge

Emma Plummer, 25, b. Cambridge

1901

Arthur Brown, 32, general labourer, b. Balsham, Cambridgeshire

Ellen J Brown, 32, b. Cambridge

Charles W Brown, 5, b. Cambridge

1911

Alfred William Crick, head, 42, married, confectioner for baker, b. Cambridge
Ethel Mary Crick, wife, 23, married, b. Cambridge
Sidney Smith, boarder, 15, errand boy for tobacconists, b. Earith Bridge, Isle of Ely
Ethel Crick, daughter, 1 month, b. Cambridge
Married 1 year, 1 child

Source – 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census

1984 (Down Your Street)

Jane Court, Animal Aid and animals rights campaigner

Jane Court died in 2016, aged 97. An obituary can be found on the web site of Animal Aid part of which is reproduced here: But on Thursday December 1st she died at her Cambridge home surrounded by her beloved, aged cats. She was 97 years old…… Animal Aid had a large hand in helping her find her way to animal rights activism. She was given a leaflet, probably by our founder Jean Pink, advertising an anti-vivisection march due to be held in the city. The year was 1978. The next day Joan founded a new local group, which was soon undertaking all-night vigils in opposition to the use of animals in laboratory research. She went on to involve herself in every imaginable animal related issue – whether live exports, hunting, shooting, whaling and, of course, the meat and dairy industry. She was, as you would expect and as the Daily Express might put it, a militant vegan. Her specialty was attention grabbing stunts, which were made all the more irresistible to the media because of her age. Her animal campaigning didn’t start until she was nearly 60 but there were frequent banner hangs from high places, public hunger strikes, sit-downs in inconvenient places, and she would make speeches and give interviews in which she refused to apologise for radical direct action or for those who carried them out – although she was opposed to violence.