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Eden Chapel and Thompson's at junction of Fitzroy and Burleigh Streets 1964These listing cover the part of Fitzroy Street which was destroyed in the building of the Grafton Centre in the 1980s.
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Before 1864: Brewery at no. 47 owned by Thomas Wesson. Wesson Brewery Ltd was created in 1900 but closed in 1914.
1871: Richard Bradford had a brewery at no.92
1874: Ann Edwards had a brewery at no. 42
1881: Frederick Crisp had a brewery at no.31 by the Ancient Druids
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SOUTH SIDE
JUNCTION OF CITY ROAD AND BURLEIGH STREET
Eden Baptist Church
(11) Co-Op Society
(12) (13) F W Legge, baker
(14) Walter Hawkers, pork butcher
(15) John H Turner, The Cherry Tree
(16) Thomas George Hardy, confectioner,
(17) (18) Whitam and Co, secondhand clothes dealer
(19) John H Webber, jeweller’s assistant
(20) George P Hawkins, baker and confectioner (also at Sidney Street and St Andrew’s Street)
GOLD STREET
(21) Kemp’s fried fish shop
(22) R W Austin, general stores
(23) Mrs Mansfield
(24) Richard Fletcher, fish merchant
(25) (26) John Cartwright, hairdresser and tobacconist
(27) Jame Edward Webb, tailor
(28) (29) Charles Custerson, butcher
John White
(30) Mts Gibson, milliner
(31) Alfred Raven, baker
(32) –
(33) George Gaunt
(34) (35) D S Stafford, the Ancient Druids
(36) –
(37) James Frederick Amps, greengrocer and confectioner
(38) A E Stearn, wholesale grocery
(39) William Dean, carpenter
(40) James Human, labourer
Harry Jarman
(41) Mrs Laughton
(42) William Hunt, plumber
(43) James Richardson, bootmaker
(44) Mrs Lynn
EDEN COTTAGES
(1) John Newman, waiter
(2) George Randall Coates
FITROY STREET CONT.
(45) Harry Whitehead, fruiterer
(47) Wesson’s Brewery Ltd
William Smith, Old English Gentleman
WESSON’S PASSAGE
Orange Cottage: Frederick Loke, labourer
(48) George Chapman, umbrella hospital and wardrobe dealer
(49) William Roberts, painter
(50) Albert Samborn Scale, Duke of Wellington
NELSON STREET
(52a) Andrew Biggs, milkman
(52) Ernest Butcher, factory hand
(53) William Langley, shopkeeper
(54) Charles Pledger, painter
(55) John Whitehead jnr., fruiterer
(56) Herbert Woods, hairdresser
COMPASSES PASSAGE
(57) William Pearson, labourer
(58) Mrs Totts, shopkeeper
(59) William Stalley, carter
(60) Arthur Ding, corporation labourer
(61) John Gates, grocer and general dealer
(62) John Thomas Alsop, blacksmith
(63) John Norfield, labourer
(64) Mrs Pauley, factory hand
George Pauley, porter
(65) Walter Moule, engine fitter
(66) (67) E O Brown, draper
(67) John Rayment junr., marine store dealer
EAST ROAD
46: Cambridge and District Co-op
48: Mrs Harriet Legge, baker
52: Marsh and Howard, butchers
56: James Wright, fired fish shop
GOLD STREET
64: G.P.Hawkins, bakers
70: Frederick Charles Verlander, hardware dealer
72: Frederick Charles Verlander, china and glass dealer
74 & 76: John Hawkins Cartwright, hair dresser
80 & 82: C G Gilbert, butchers
84: Harry and George Whitehead, greengrocers
88: John Frederick James Holliday, pet stores
92: Ancient Druids PH, Frank Kimberley
100: A E Stearn, wholesale grocers
114 & 116: Charles Anderson, furniture dealer
120: The Old English Gentleman PH, Charles A Smith
126: Frederick Charles Hopkins, fried fish dealer
NELSON STREET
132: Mrs Frances Langley, shopkeeper
138: Horace Sydney Langram, tailor
158: George Stokes, refreshment rooms
64 – 74 Fitzroy Street, junction with Gold Street, 1939 (photo L Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)
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GOLD STREET
70 & 72: Frederick Verlander, hardware dealer
This was later known as the Little Kettle and became the centre of the Kite Action Group.
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NELSON STREET
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