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A dark brick three-story building with a light green door next to a white Oden shopfront featuring a large display window.

40 Green Street, Cambridge

40 – 41 Green Street

History of 40 Green Street

1861

(40)

Charles Bainbridge, 48, lodging house keeper and college servant, b Durham

Charlotte, 49, b Colchester

Charlotte, 23, b Cambridge

Charles, 22, b Cambridge

Rosa, 17, b Cambridge

Richard, 16, b Cambridge

Thomas, 14, b Cambridge

Rebecca, 12, b Cambridge

1901

Gustave David, 41, bookseller, b France French subject

[previously at 57 Eden Street]

Emma, 41, b Warwicks

Ashley, 1, b Wilts

Ethel Udell, 19, servant, b London

In 1911 at 34 Thompson’s Lane

See Mill Road Cemetery entry

1913

(40) William Redley, male nurse

(41) George Cox, athletic outfitter

Aplin & Co, hairdressers and perfumers

WWI

Sara Payne (CWN 23.4.1981) notes that there was a cafe here during WWI which locals remembered as a ‘place of ill repute’ and there were ‘goings on with the waitresses upstairs’.

1930s

(40) Bodgers, robe makers

Bodgers had been previously in Sidney Street.

1936

Dr Rex Woods moved here and occupied the floors above the shop. His client George Stephen had married Miss Bodger.

1962

(40) R Salisbury Woods, physician & surgeon

(40 & 41) Bodger & Co, hosiers

Book cover with blue background and a black-and-white ink drawing of townhouses behind a metal fence and brick wall.

Cambridge Doctor, Rex Salisbury Woods

1981

(40) Bodgers

At this time, one of the employees was Dudley Newman, who had previously worked for Plenderleith’s the tailors in King’s Parade.

Living over the shop in 1981 was Dr Rex Salisbury Woods, former Olympic athlete. He first moved there in 1937. Sara Payne describes Dr Woods and his flat in detail (see ref. above)

2018

(40) Oden

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