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50 - 55 East Road (Collins barber shop) and George Pope's house nearby (date unknown)

50 – 55 East Road

History of 55 East Road

F T Unwin in A Cambridge Childhood Revisited refers to George Pope as ‘the pram musician’. He also refer’s to Chatty Collins’ Barber shop, at the front of the picture.

1913

(50)

Arthur Silvester, ice cream merchant

Robert Collins, hairdresser

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A Odell, carman

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Thomas Harvey

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William Childs

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E Joselyn

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Alfred Grosvenor, labourer


1939

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Richard Barham, b 1888, painter

Dorothy P Barham, b 1910

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John Jones, b 1932

Dorothy Jones, b 1932

Harry Hewish, b 1886, tailor

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Arthur Odell, b 1876, furniture remover (Heavy work)

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May E Nightingale, b 1886, laundry hand

Claude R Bond, b 1918, wireless engineer.

Edward T Wright, b 1864, gardener

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Percy Stock, b 1886, waiter

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Edward Joslin, b 1914, corporation general labourer

Evelyn N, b 1919,

Henry G Barker, b 1872, iron foundry labourer

Sidney A Joslin, b 1921, builders general labourer

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George Pope, b 1896, cripple and partly blind street muscian (gramophone)

Alice Ralph, b 1896, food preservers (Chivers)

Dennis Ralph, b 1930,

Clifford Ralph, b 1937,

George King, b 1865, retired builders labourer


1962 not listed

 

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