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Manor Farm Arbury Road 1901 OS Map
The Wright family circa 1891
1891:
Thomas Wright, 65, land agent valuer auctioneer farmer, b Upwell Cambs
[Thomas and Elizabeth Jane died at 113 Chesterton Road in 1898; in 1881 the family were at Sylfield House, Bateman Street; ]
Elizabeth, 60, b Upwell Norfolk
Annie Hopkins, daughter, 30, b Fulbourn
Mary Jane, 29, b Fulbourn
Arthur, 27, solicitor, b Fulbourn
Emma Wiltshire, 19, servant, b Abington Piggots
Sarah Christmas, 17, housemaid, b Sutton
Alfred Clark, 56, gardener, b Fulbourn
Richard Brete [Brett], 30, ag.lab., b Borough Green [Actually born at Histon or Impington according to family. He was horse keeper at the farm.]
Edwin Smith, 26, cowman, b Swaffham Prior
Samuel Knight, 35, shepherd, b Burwell
Joseph Burton, 50, ag.lab., b Shelford
Edward Mansfield, 26, ag.lab., b Chesterton
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1937: (Kellys)
Manor Farm House:
Lt-Col Charles R Bennett
Manor Farm Dairy:
Mrs Alice Cardinal
The Manor Nurseries:
Ernest Frederick Sale
Mr Cardinal, Manor Farm Dairy (c1940s)
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From Wikipedia entry on North Cambridge Academy:
The school was built as Manor School around 1959 based on a design by the architects W. Doig and M.R. Francis and, at that time, was a flagship school in Cambridge City. The school was named after Manor Farm which was in the area and was owned by Cambridgeshire County Council, who bought the farm in 1909 from the Benson family of Chesterton hall. The Council split the farm into smallholdings, and the name of one of the smallholders, William Downham, is commemorated in a nearby road called Downham’s Lane.
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