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A view along a street with timber-framed buildings and hoardings covered in posters, with a vintage car parked on the road.

Hobson Street c.1923, looking south (MoC 116/52)

33 Hobson Street, Cambridge

History of 33 Hobson Street

The following article by Graham Sledge (2023) has been kindly sent to us based on research in Corpus Christi College archives:

1897 Miller’s Organ Works Hobson Street


1913

J Abbs, harness maker

True Blue Yard

Miller and Son’s organ works


An empty street with partially demolished, weathered buildings on the left and a tall, multi-story brick building in the rear.

Hobson Street ‘Island site’, March 1930 during demolition (MoC 148/54)

A narrow, debris-filled alley between partially demolished timber-framed buildings with several men standing among the rubble.

Back of Sussex Street property during demolition from Hobson Street 1929 (MoC183/54)

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