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A large group of school-aged children and two women in Victorian attire pose for a formal group portrait outside a building.

Eden Street Higher Grade Infants School c.1896 (MoC)

Higher Grade Infants/Girls School, Eden Court, 63a Eden Street

History of Higher Grade schools

This is the site of the Higher Grade Infants School and later the Girls High Grade School.

In the picture above of the Infants School, the older lady is Miss Bond, and the pupil teacher, Jessie, who later went on to teach at the Central School.


1939 (63a)

Suttle manufacturers


It had been a clothing factory run by the Suttle family. Leslie had taken over from his father Frank who started the business in Fitzroy Street at the beginning of the C20th.


In 1981 it was a warehouse and workshop for Kitchen 22.

Higher Grade Girls School opens 1874

2026

A tall, white-painted brick building with black-framed windows and a gable roof sits alongside residential houses on a street.

Eden Street Cambridge (RGL2026)

 

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