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14 Green Street Cambridge

14 Green Street Cambridge

14 Green Street, Cambridge

History of 14 Green Street

1851

(13  + ?) George Taylor, 30, jeweler goldsmith, b Middlesex

1861

Edmund Peacock, 45, cabinet maker, b Cambridge

Green Street in 1910. On left is old entrance to Gifford Place.

1874

Walter Stockbridge opened a furniture dealers. He had opened a furniture shop in Melbourn in 1870. In 1878 he married Alice, daughter of William Wallis, licensee of the “Blackbirds” in East Road. By 1881 he had left Green Street and opened larger premises at 49 Sidney Street.

1881

John Charles, 31, printer and compositor, b Cambridge

Mary Ann, 30, lodging house keeper, b Melbourn

Julia Augusta, 6, b Cambridge

Mary Gertrude, 4, b Cambridge

Eliza Anne Pettit, servant, 17, b Histon

William Lyndhurst Lewis, 20, undergraduate Trinity Hall, b London

Arthur Charles Gibson, 19, undergraduate Trinity College, b Suffolk

John Charles had previously lived at 4 Drummer Street.  John had married Mary Ann Stockbridge in 1873. See ‘One Man’s Cambridge – The Life and Times of J H V Charles 1887-1932’ by J A Charles.

1887

Birth of John Henry Victor Charles. Father was John Charles, a compositor for the Cambridge University press. In 1889 the family moved to 3 Bridge Street.

1913

Albert A George, lodging house keeper

1950

Bevan Hostel built for 18 first year students and resident housekeeper Mrs G Badcock.

1962

Trinity College Hostel. Nos 14-17 Green Street are Bevan hostel, an annexe of Trinity College, run for many years by Len Brooker and his wife. Len was coach to the C.U. Amateur Boxing Club.

2018

Petit Bateau

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