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Alice Rose Dickerson (family)1901: (2) St James Terrace
Edward Green, 61, college servant, b Cambridge
Maria, 64, b Cambridge
Agnes, 19, pupil teacher, b Cambridge
George Start, lodger, widower, 60, cabinet maker, b Essex
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1911:
Ethelbert H J Rigg, 37, cycle agent, b London
Rachel, 37, b Ely
Doris E, 10, b Cambridge
Harold J, 8, b Cambridge
Mary, 7, b Cambridge
Ethel, 5, b Cambridge
Ellen, 6 mos, b Cambridge
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1913: (4)
Rigg and Co, Causeway Cycle Store
(4a) Walter Stockbridge, cabinet maker’s workshop
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1916 (Oct): Ethelbert Rigg pleaded not guilty to the charge of showing a light through a glass roof over his kitchen one night the previous month. Sergeant W Winter told the court that the buildings round Mr Rigg’s house were illuminated by a gas burner in the kitchen. The defendant said that his glass roof was distempered and the light was covered by a dark green umbrella and a sheet of brown paper.nevertheless, he was fined ten shillings.
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1935 – 1936: Cambridge Oil Services
The company was set up by George Mace and Charles Peters. It served the farming community. They were two friends from Harlton who had married sisters, Alice and Elsie Dickerson, In 1935 and 1936 both couples were living at this address.
After 1936 this remained the business address but the two couples moved to 530, Old Gardens, Newmarket Road.
George Mace (family)
Elsie May Dickerson (family)
Charles Peters (family)
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1962:
Burchnell’s Ltd, electrical engineers
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