Working Men’s Club
The Master of Peterhouse hosts a suffragist speaker at Cambridge Working Mens Club
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FROM MODERN JUNCTION OF FITZROY STREET AND BURLEIGH STREET GOING EAST
109: Alfred Suttle, shipping, emigration and rail agent [See Victoria Avenue west]
GN and GNER receiving office
108: Starr and Rignall, photographic artists and frame makers
107: Moon and Co, drapers
106: –
105: Mrs Clara Still MP, provision stores
104: W and R Fletcher Ltd, butchers
Telegraph, Money Order and Post Office
103: W Heffer and Sons, stationers, printers
101 / 102: Frederick Morley, pawnbrokers; Arthur Kirbyshire, manager
Here is James Street
100: John Walker, drapers and outfitters
99: Florence Louisa Liles, hosier
98: Benjamin Liles, leather seller and bootmaker
William Ewart Liles
Christ Church Parish Rooms
[In World War One a communal kitchen was opened here. It followed the initiative of ‘national kitchens’ which were opening across the country. Meals ranged in price from 4d to 1s and were on sale every day between 12 and 2pm and from 5.30 to 7.30 in the evening. By November 1918 the kitchen was selling 2,000 portions a day. See Barnwell at War (2018).]
Here is Church Street
97: Freeman Hardy and Willis, repair depot
96: Mrs M A White
95: Henry Foulger Hayward
94: Elijah Newman, bootmaker
93: John Robert Traylen, plumber
92: Frank Potter, builder
91: William James, printer
90: Skinner and Waldock, corn dealers; Richard Ison, manager
89: Edgar Smith, general shop
Here is Albert Street
88: London Central Meat CO; Robert Read, manager
88 1/2: J K Williams, grocer and provision dealer
87: William Cooper, hardware shop
Plantation Row:
86: Henry Ding, shoemaker
85: Frederick Campion
84: Mrs Green
83: F G Clark, shoemaker
82: Frederick Smith, rag merchant
[82 Fitzroy Street is described as a brothel in the 1850 court case involving the theft of a coat by Charles Collis]
81: John Smith, sweet stores
Here is Wellington Street
80: Frederick A Maddison, baker and corn dealer
79: James Wing
78a: Charles Clarke, vanman
77: Charles Rowling, bricklayer’s labourer
Chivers’ chicory factory
76: Henry Miller Langley
74 – 75: J Whitehead, fruiterer
73: T Fox, slater
72: John Bishop, cement worker
71: Mrs S Edwards
70: William Hunt, carter
68 – 69: Mrs Stokes, baker
Here is Gloucester Place (later Severn Place)
Cambridge Working Men’s Club and Institute
64 – 74 Fitzroy Street, junction with Gold Street, 1939 (photo L Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)
47 – 57 Fitzroy Street, corner of Fitzroy and James Street, 1939 (photo L Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)
FITZROY LANE
(41) Suttle, tobacconists
(43) Henry’s ladies hairdressers
(43) Denture Repair Service
(45) Pauline’s Dress Shop, ladies outfitters
(47) Mrs A Wadham, confectioner
Mrs A E Tarrant
(49) Ernest E Griggs, fruiterer
(51) –
(53) J D’Arcy Penberthy, stationer and Post Office
(55-57) Fredrick Morley, pawnbrokers
Monday was the busiest day for pawnbrokers as people returned the suits they had retrieve to wear for church on Sunday. (Vanishing Cambridge, Mike Petty)
Here is James Street
(59) Hire and Supply Ltd
(63) William John White, boarding
Christ Church Parish Rooms
Here is Christchurch Street
(71-73) Elliott & Langford, leather
(75) Thomas Crawford
(77) Frank Finnegan
(79) Mrs S Caldecoat
(81) Mrs P Hobbs
(83) Miss Mole
(85) James Langford
(87) Mrs V Turner, wardrobe dealer
(89) John Barnes
Here is Napier Street
(95) Harry L Whitehead
(95) William Whitehead, fruiterers
Here is Wellington Street
(133) British Thomson Houston Co, electrical engineers
(135 – 151) vacant
Here is Severn Place
(155) Mrs W Cook
Cambridge Working Men’s Club and Institute
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