9 – 21 Benson Street
History of Playfair
1911:
(16) Benson Street
Harriet Dennard, 52, laundress, b Cambridge
Mabel, 17, laundry maid, b Cambridge
Albert, 14, b Cambridge
Hugh Kavanagh, boarder, 27, cowman, b Cambridge
Albert Edward Dennard: Private 40176, 9th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action 5 January 1917. Aged 20.
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1913:
(9) Benson Cottage: W Raynor, carman
(11) Samuel Collins, college servant
(13) Arthur George Garner, batmaker: Playfair Works
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1937:
Henry John Gray and sons, athletic outfitters (Playfair works)
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1962: 9-21
H J Gray and Sons, sports goods manufacturers (Playfair works)
See A Community Remembers: Histon Road p.28
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1973:
9.6.1973 local newspaper reported that Gray’s had. defied a Council order to stop work on a second storey extension.