56 (19 – 22) Newmarket Road, British Tar, Gallant Son, Cambridge

History of 56 Newmarket Road

1861

(19 – 20) British Tar

John Darling, 35, coal porter, b Cambridge

(21)

Harriet Skinner, 66, shopkeeper, b Berks

(22)

John Smith, 61, brazier, b London

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1871

(19 – 21) Gallant Son, Sarah Gravelock, b 1822

(22) Charles Webb, b 1826

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1881

Primitive Methodist Tabernacle

(22) William Bavster, b 1840

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1901 ?

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1913

Miss Harriet Flack

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7 March 1935
S.A. Rolfe’s wholesale confectioners and tobacconists business started 25 years ago in a very small way on East Road. Now it is the largest of its kind in the Eastern Counties with nine full-time travellers and 15 motor vans. New premises in Newmarket Road house an enormous variety of brands including chocolates from R.S. Murray and ‘Classic’ bottle sweets made by Messrs Parkes. Mr Rolfe was hailed as a hard-working and keen young business man who by sheer determination and grit had made his mark in his chosen trade.
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge East Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, references 35 03 07, 35 03 09 & a.

30 May 1938
S.A. Rolfe’s wholesale tobacconist and confectioners business began in a very small way in East Road, in 1911. Now it is the largest in the Eastern Counties employing nine full-time travellers. In March 1935 they moved to Newmarket Road where the stock is kept in perfect condition and its 20 motor vans can be loaded completely under cover. They cover a territory reaching as far as Clacton, Frinton-on-Sea, Peterborough and Luton conveying tons of tobacco every day. All leading brands are stocked including R.S. Murray (chocolates and confectionary) and Messrs Parkes ‘Classic’ boiled sweets – Advert.
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge East Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, reference 38 05 30b.

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1962 (56-60)

S A Rolfe and Son Ltd, wholesale confectioners, tobacconists