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190 - 192 East Road (photo Cambridge Libraries)

186a, 187, 188, 189 (Alhambra), 190, 192 East Road

History of 180-190 East Road

1888

Alfred Robson Bowd is living at 188½ East Road at the time of his marriage to Lizzie Johnson. Alfred is 27 and a Stone Mason.


1913

(186a) J Matthews, hairdresser

(186b) W H Beamiss, fried fish shop

(187) E C Atkinson, bicycle agent

(188) H Parkonson, basket maker

(188 1/2) Bennett and Blowers, decorators

(189) Harry Witt, The Alhambra

(190) P T Coulson, butcher and sausage maker

(192) James Kirkup, upholsterer


1962

(186b) Cook’s Fish Bar

(187) Kenneth H Knights, hairdresser

(188) Miss F E Blake, fruiterer and greengrocer

(189) –

(190) Claude Wetherall, butcher

(192) Miss D E King

186 – 188 East Road, March 1974 (MoC609/74)

190 East Road, March 1974 (MoC 610/74)

Claude Wetherall was a wholesale poulterer and high class butcher. By 1974 the building was a store house.

186 – 190 East Road, 1974 (MoH 438/74)

189 East Road, Alhambra pub, 1974 (MoC551.74)

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