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A row of two-storey white cottages with sash windows, brick chimneys, and a bicycle parked on the pavement in the foreground.

4 – 7 Grafton Street, date unknown

4 – 7 Grafton Street, Cambridge

History of 4 - 7 Grafton Street

Down Your Street, 1984, p 120, notes that “Jack Lang, a director of the computer firm Top Express, lives at no.4 and he wonders whether they were agricultural buildings. They are built out of square ashlar blocks which could have come from the fabric of Cambridge Castle, demolished in the 1840s.”

1913

(4)

Thomas Bailey, army pensioner

(5)

Jacob Ward, bootmaker

(6)

William Hawes, porter

(7)

Walter Ellison, warehouseman


1939

(4)

Mrs E Newell

(5)

A W Homes, college servant

(6)

Mrs Sarah E Oak

(7)

S Clark, fruiterer

Sources

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Tags

  • Building of Local Interest
  • college servant

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