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The House in the Fields, Field House, Waltham Sal, – 49, 51 and 53 Barton Road

History of Waltham Sal

1830

The House in the Fields in shown on the Baker map of Cambridge

1881 Waltham Sal

Dr Bushel Annington, medical officer of health lived here until 1919

1920 – 1931

(49)

 

(51)

 

(53)

1931

Herbert Thomas Hockey, estate agent, acquired the whole property and reconverted it back into a single house.

1969

House demolished and replaced with block of town houses. At the time City Councillors Tony Cornell and Mr J M Lennox Cook of Lennox Cook School of English at 75 Barton Road led a campaign to try to save the house. As a result Archway Court preserves the old house but town houses have been built in the garden behind.

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