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A brick house with sash windows sits beside a sloped grass bank above a paved street, framed by tree branches in the foreground.

Mount Pleasant (MoC191/54)

Mount Pleasant (north side)

History of Mount Pleasant, north side

These houses had gone by the end of the 20th century. The photo shows the remains of the Roman ramparts.

1861

(Back of Mount Pleasant)

Henry Chapman, head, carpenter, b Hunts

Ann Monk, head, laundress, b Chatteris


1891

house in yard of no name: vacant

house in yard of no name: George Blackwell, 28, bricklayer, b St Ives


A long, two-story stone building with multiple chimneys sits behind an embankment and stone stairs on a residential street.

Mount Please NW angle of Roman town (c.1928)

A collage of black-and-white photographs shows children playing in the snow on a slope with a sign reading Mount Pleasant.

Toboganning at Mount Pleasant down old Roman bank, Christmas 1927


1962

(27) Alfred Grist

(25)

(23) Robert Arch

(21) Mrs Rose

(19)

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