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Josiah Chater Digitalisation Project

The Josiah Chater Digitalisation project involves transcribing a series of diaries written...

Josiah Chater, Enid Porter notes

Josiah Chater Project

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Cambridge Conservative Club photo supplied by A B Chater (MoC)

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Josiah Chater

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Josiah Chater

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Josiah Chater

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Josiah Chater

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Grave memorial of the Chater family, Histon Road cemetery

Midsummer Common

“Midsummer Common, I love that’s it’s a bit wild and the cows...

73 Mill Road (31) (3 Pulling Terrace)

1881 (3 Pulling Terrace) Robert R Cowan, 36, travelling draper, b Scotland...

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Josiah and Agnes Chater on their Golden Wedding anniversary, 1903 (MoC358/64)

Tour 2 – Newtown area of Cambridge

Preface The list below of links to the Capturing Cambridge website is...

Ely Villa, Hurst, Miton Road

For more detailed information about the area see the following web page:...

79 (27) Mawson Road, Mawson House

1891 Mawson House unnumbered Alfred Chater, accountant 1901 (27) Alfred Chater, 67,...

48 Mawson Road

1911 Alfred Chater, 77, accountant registry, b Saffron Walden 1913 Alfred Chater...

18 & 18a St Peter’s Street

Listed building Pair of houses with attached workshop range and railings. Early...

The Cambridge Steam Laundry Company

For an overview of the history of laundries in the Cherry Hinton...

Gasometer, Gas Works, Newmarket Road

The Great Gas Controversy Enid Porter ‘Victorian Cambridge’ using the diary of...

University Rifle Ground

The University Rifle Ground was opened on 30 Oct 1861 by the...

14 Rose Crescent

1852 Josiah Chater was very involved in the setting up of a...

The Ragged School

An undenominational school had been founded in 1846 in New Street and...

Grange Farm

In 1849 Josiah Chater recorded in his diary a burglary at Grange...

The Old Rectory, 1 Church Street, Fen Ditton

Listed building: House, formerly the rectory. C16 and C17 with early C18...

The Eagle Foundry

After the fire of 21 February 1846 at Headly’s iron foundry on...

41 (77) Castle Street, The Three Tuns, Whyman’s Inn

1664/5 Alderman Newton records in his diary for January 15th the funeral...

49 Maids’ Causeway (12 Brunswick Place)

Listed Building: 1861 William G Chater, 34, woollen draper, b Essex Mary...

Independent / Congregationalist chapel, Downing Place

Z marks the location of the Independent (Congregationalist) Chapel in Downing Place...

21 – 20 Sidney Street

1850: On the 14th March Josiah and William received £300 each from...

Crane Inn, Crane Yard, Market Street

Approximate position of Crane Yard. The Crane was a very old inn...

80 (33) Newmarket Road, Bene’t House & Warwicker’s Yard, Benet Brewery / Seven Sisters Brewery

Warwicker’s Yard lay at the back of Bene’t House. It was from...

5 West Road (New Road), West House / West House Hotel

1871 New Road Jabez Jay Chater, 36, nurseryman seedsman, florist, fruiterer and...

84 Regent Street

1911 Alice Murray, 61, lodging house keeper, b London 1913 The Cambridge...

14 (11) Emmanuel Road

1851 (11) David Impey, 62, widower, college servant, b Foxton Charles, 35,...

Mill Lane

For a very detailed analysis of the history of this area, particularly...

Roebuck House, Roebuck Inn, 11 Ferry Lane / Water Street, Chesterton

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: the house presents a thick rectangular block on...

152 (66) Old Manor House, Mendicity House, 154 (67), 156 (68) Newmarket Road

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: House, now three tenements … built...

10 Jesus Lane

1861 Page Wallis, 32, veterinary surgeon, b Haslingfield 1913 Joseph Hooper 1962...

2 (100) Castle Street, White Horse Inn, Folk Museum, Museum of Cambridge

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: No. 2 Castle...

42, 43, 44 Trumpington Street

1871 (43) Charles Whichello, 38, grocer, b Bourn Hannah, 35, b Middlesex...

Peas Hill (Union Street)

1604: Cambridge Town Treasurers’ Accounts lists the cost of making a bull-ring...

St Edward’s Passage

Listed Buildings: Nos 3 &4, 8, 9, 10, 12-15. 1851: (1) William...

42, 44, 46 (13)Regent Street

1840 CWN 26.11.1981 suggests that John Howes moved from Norfolk to Cambridge...

14 & 15 Free School Lane, Free School

On the map above dating from circa 1850 no. 24 is the...

42 St Andrew’s Street, Police Station & Spinning House

The description of the property in the indenture of feoffment by which...

18-19 St Andrew’s Street

The Grand Arcade archaeological report of 2019 (p.260) notes that this frontage...

19 Fitzwilliam Street

1840s: The house was owned by Josiah Chater’s uncle, William Adams. On...

5 St Peter’s Terrace, Trumpington Street

1871 Sophia Simpson, 79, annuitant, b Cambridge Martha Carter, 42, servant, b...

35 Sidney Street

1857 Josiah Chater records that John Lincolne had considered buying 1 Market...

13 King’s Parade

Listed building C19. 4 storeys, 3 windows. Red brick, long and short...

23 – 24 Market Street

1816 Josiah Chater was good friends with the Macintosh family. William Macintosh...

19 – 20 Market Street

1845 Josiah Chater recorded that he fetched a penny twist of tea...

12 – 13 Market Street

In 1839 William Eaden Lilley (1816-1884) took over the business previously known...

7-8 Market Street

1851 (7) Thomas Wells, 33, watch and clock maker, b London Elizabeth,...

8, 9, 10, 11 Sidney Street

18th century Samuel Wilkinson, pipe manufacturer See 21 St Andrew’s Street. 1830s...

15 Petty Cury

1841 ? unnumbered Isaac Young, 35, tea dealer 1851 Thomas Groom, 32,...

10 Petty Cury

1841 Thomas King, 20, stationer Mary, 25 Susan Rutty, 14, servant 1840s:...

Red Lion Hotel, 6 (28) Petty Cury

The pub / hotel was demolished in 1969. There was a separately...

3 Petty Cury

1851 (unnumbered) John Richmond, 45, baker 1861 William Sheldon, 68, formerly hairdresser,...

1a – 1 Petty Cury

1840 Joel Smart moved here from 59 Bridge Street 1845 2 January...

31 Petty Cury

1847 23 January. Josiah Chater went to a party given by his...

23 Petty Cury, Coach and Horses Inn

1841 John Bilton, 40, publican Rebecca, 40 John, 9 Elizabeth, 7 James,...

Midsummer Common

There is a Wikipedia article about Midsummer Common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer_Common Bronze Age: Gravel...

1,2,3,4,5 Sidney Street, Lloyd’s Bank (Foster’s Bank), Crown and Woolpack Inn

This sequence of buildings appears in two censuses before it is ennumerated...

Cross Keys Yard, Magdalene Street

1851 Cross Keys Yard: Matthew Ball, 63, vinegar maker’s clerk, b Hackney...

65 Bridge Street

1845 Shop opened by James Hodson 1850 George Field, tailor, took over...

21-22 Bridge Street, Copyn Hall, 36 Thompson’s Lane

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: are probably those...

9 Bridge Street

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: of...

3 Bridge Street, Crown Inn, Hoop Inn

1588: Crown Inn Pevsner notes, nos 3-4 (altered, formerly part of the...

30 Market Hill

1792 Simon Barrett founded a china and earthenware business. Simon had three...

31 Market Hill

1871 Richard S Graves, 47, linen draper, b Lincs Marianne C, 39,...

6 Market Hill

1851 Charles Leo Borough [?], 47, ironmonger, b Lincs 1855 In May...

7 Market Hill

There seems to have been some confusion in the numbering of the...

1 – 2 Market Hill

Nos 1-2 in gabled red brick (originally Hallack & Bond, grocers) are...

Market Hill

The article by Peter Bryan and Nick Wise, ‘A Reconstruction of the...

Corn Exchange

Pevsner notes: 1873-5 by R R Rowe. A very large example, in...

Guildhall / Town Hall (Jew’s House / Synagogue / Gaol / Tollbooth)

The earliest buildings on the modern Guildhall site included two connected with...

Cambridge Castle, County Gaol

Caroline Biggs interviewed local historian Allan Brigham in 2013 from the top...

Histon Road Cemetery

The cemetery, 1843-4, was one of the earliest private cemeteries and was...

St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church, St Andrew’s Hill (Hog Hill)

According to Pevsner this is ‘1903-4. A good specimen of G Baines...

St Michael (Michaelhouse Centre)

Pevsner writes: A smallish, extremely attractive church almost entirely of the early...

Observatory Group

The observatory, 1822-24 is the only major work by J C Mead....

Pitt Building University Press

General Information of the Cambridge University Press and the Pitt Building can...

Newnham Grange (Causey/Causeway House), Darwin College, Silver Street, no. 3 Newnham

1672 Corporation of Cambridge granted to Richard Dickinson a 21 year lease...

The Royal Albert Benevolent Society Almshouses

Pevsner notes (Cambridgeshire p. 329): The Royal Albert Almshouses, 1859,. By Frederick...

108 Hills Road, The Osborne Arms (42)

1839 (from Robsons Directory) Elizabeth Free 1846 6 August. Josiah Chater went...

76 Hills Road (3 Dorset Terrace)

1871 (3 Dorset Terrace) Sarah H Gardner, widow, 59, b Liverpool, dividends...

1 Hills Road, Our Lady and the English Martyrs Presbytery, Catholic Rectory, (Lensfield House)

Lensfield House Built in 1810 on part of John Lens’s land allocation...

Alexandra Street

Alexandra Street used to run south east from Petty Cury and meet...

Cambridge Railway Station

See Enid Porter’s article: The Railway The station was designed by Sancton...

Doric Street

For notes on the early development of this area see New Town....

Parker’s Pieces / Piece

Parker’s Piece is named after a pastry cook who used the land...

29 Station Road, 1 Salisbury Villas (Basque Refugee Hostel)

Group of houses built c1874 possibly by Richard Reynolds Rowe. Arundel Villas...

6 Sedley Taylor Road, Sedley House

1929-38 Leonard J Chater FCPA, b 1905 Maud, b 1882 Norman Augustine...

109 Queen Edith’s Way, Domala

1935 Wilfred Chater

28 Cherry Hinton Road, Morden House

1911 (Morden House) Walter Thomas Chater, 39, secretary and accountant Cooperative Soc.,...

21 Hartington Grove, Agnes Holm

The Cambridge Evening News reported in 1990 the story behind no.21 Hartington...

38 Rock Road, Montrose

1911 (Montrose) Leonard Jay Chater, 32, accountant Norwich Union Insurance Office, born...

27 Hinton Avenue, Headingley

1911 Elizabeth Blows, 54, widow, born Cambridge Frank Vernon Blows, 18, clerk...