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A cream-painted hotel with three stories and a shorter, two-story yellow brick building with arched windows on Lensfield Road.

53 – 55 Lensfield Road

55 Lensfield Road / 8 Downing Terrace

History of 55 Lensfield Road

1851 unnumbered

William Sampson, 40, editor of Cambridge Chronicle, b Westmoreland

Fanny, 33, b Essex

William Morris, 2, b Cambridge

Edward Mackieth, 1 mos, b Cambridge

Eliza Fuller, 38, servant, b Fulbourn

Sarah Haylock, 26, servant,  b Duxford


1861 (8)

Eleanor Imrie, 61, fundholder, b Westmoreland


1901 8 Downing Terrace

Frederick Ayres, 31, bicycle maker, b Cambridge

Mary E, 29, b Cambridge

Grace, 9, b Cambridge

William, 7, b Cambridge

Constance, 4, b Cambridge

Mary Williamson, aunt, 60, b Cambridge

Edward T Powell, lodger, 23, university student, b Norfolk


1911

Catherine Gurney, 66, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge

1913 Miss C Gurney

 

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