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The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1856
Josiah Chater’s diary: extract, 11-16 August 1856 Monday August 11th The Parliamentary...
The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1851
1792
Simon Barrett founded a china and earthenware business. Simon had three sons,...
The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1850
Excerpts: 1850 March 14th – Josiah and brother have secret plan to...
The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1849
Excerpts: 1849 March 4th – Josiah visits the Holcroft graves in Oakington...
The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1848
Excerpts: 1848 1st January – New Year’s Resolution I had the pleasure...
The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1847
Excerpts: 1847 7th January – proctors arrest girl but she is rescued...
The Diaries of Josiah Chater – 1844
Overview This diary documents the daily life of Josiah Chater, employed in...
Josiah Chater Digitalisation Project
The Josiah Chater Digitalisation project involves transcribing a series of diaries written...
YMCA, Alexandra Street, Cambridge
1868-1871 Josiah Chater describes in detail in his diary how the move...
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:...
The Cambridge Steam Laundry Company
Prior to the laundry occupying this site, there was a brewery. For...
Gasometer, Gas Works, Newmarket Road
The Great Gas Controversy Enid Porter ‘Victorian Cambridge’ using the diary of...
The Old Rectory, 1 Church Street, Fen Ditton
Listed building: House, formerly the rectory. C16 and C17 with early C18...
41 (77) Castle Street, The Three Tuns, Whyman’s Inn, Cambridge
1664/5 Alderman Newton records in his diary for January 15th the funeral...
Independent / Congregationalist chapel, Downing Place
Z marks the location of the Independent (Congregationalist) Chapel in Downing Place...
Crane Inn, Crane Yard, Market Street (Shoemaker Row)
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...
152 (66) Old Manor House, Mendicity House, 154 (67), 156 (68) Newmarket Road
Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: House, now three tenements … built...
2 (formerly 100) Castle Street, White Horse Inn, Folk Museum, Museum of Cambridge
2 Castle Street in Cambridge, formerly known as 100 Castle Street, is...
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...
Free School, 14 & 15 Free School Lane
1667 12th Feb. Samuel Newton’s son, John starts school. On the map...
42 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, Police Station & Spinning House
42 St Andrew’s Street is an historic site in central Cambridge, associated...
5 St Peter’s Terrace, Trumpington Street
1871 Sophia Simpson, 79, annuitant, b Cambridge Martha Carter, 42, servant, b...
23 – 24 Market Street
1816 Josiah Chater was good friends with the Macintosh family. William Macintosh...
12 – 13 Market Street
In 1839 William Eaden Lilley (1816-1884) took over the business previously known...
8, 9, 10, 11 Sidney Street
18th century Samuel Wilkinson, pipe manufacturer See 21 St Andrew’s Street. 1830s...
Red Lion Hotel, 6 (28) Petty Cury, Cambridge
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,...
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...
3 Bridge Street, Crown Inn, Hoop Inn
1588: Crown Inn Pevsner notes, nos 3-4 (altered, formerly part of the...
20, 21, 22 Trinity Street (White Bear Inn)(Heffers)
‘Rebuilt behind in 1969-70 for Heffers bookshop by Austin-Smith: Lord as part...
1 – 2 Market Hill (Veysy House)
Nos 1-2 in gabled red brick (originally Hallack & Bond, grocers) are...
Guildhall (Town Hall and Jew’s House), Cambridge
The Guildhall in Cambridge, also known as the Town Hall, stands on...
Cambridge Castle (Castle Hill), Cambridge
Cambridge Castle was a Norman motte-and-bailey castle built on Castle Hill in...
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...
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...
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...
Cambridge Railway Station
Cambridge Railway Station, opened in 1845, marked the city’s full entry into...
Parker’s Piece (Pieces), Cambridge
NB: For information on cricket in Cambridge see also Cricket in Cambridge and...
29 Station Road, 1 Salisbury Villas (Basque Refugee Hostel)
Group of houses built c1874 possibly by Richard Reynolds Rowe. Arundel Villas...
21 Hartington Grove, Agnes Holm, Cambridge
The Cambridge Evening News reported in 1990 the story behind no.21 Hartington...
Hartington Grove, Cambridge
Hartington Grove was developed in 1891 on land known as Cavendish Park...
Explore Cambridgeshire’s History: Discover Local Stories, Photos and Family Histories and Heritage Archives
1792
Simon Barrett founded a china and earthenware business. Simon had three sons,...
Roebuck House, Roebuck Inn, 11 Ferry Lane / Water Street, Chesterton
Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: the house presents a thick rectangular block on...
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21 Hartington Grove, Agnes Holm Cambridge
Josiah and Agnes Chater on their Golden Wedding anniversary, 1903 (MoC358/64)