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65 Lensfield Road
65 Lensfield Road
Charlotte Skinner, widow, 65, house proprietor and annuitant
Mary Charlotte Harriet Sugden, cousin, widow, 19, annuitant
Charles Sugden, 3 mos, cousin
Charlotte Noble, 28, servant
Sarah Knight, 27, nursemaid
William Lowton, 41, gardener and seedsman, b Grantchester
John Hodson, 51, living on own means, b Liverpool
Elizabeth W, 48, b Hunts
Bessie W, 10, b Cambridge
Maria E Bunn, visitor, 77, living on own means, b Norfolk
Fanny Harvey, 21, servant, b Essex
Selina Cooper, 19, servant, b Cambridge
Things soon went awry as John Hodson’s fortunes collapsed according to his niece Mrs E Fordham following the Whittaker Wright railway scam in 1900, which was investments for building the Bakerloo Line in London. Following this in 1901 Hodson sold his garden for £300, the Folly and possibly his house ‘Waterloo House’ on Lensfield Road to Frederick Dale the local brewery magnate (Dale’s brewery Gwydir Street off Mill Road), the Dale’s family used the garden from this time and it was accepted that no-one intruded. In 1907 he was living at number 7 Albert Almshouses on Hills Road and in 1908 he died.
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Frederick Dale, 46, brewer, b London
Edith Kate, 43, b Cambridge
Guy Frederick, 12, b Cambridge
Agnes Rutter, 25, cook, b Suffolk
Alice Ison, 17, housemaid, b Cambs
Frederick Dale
You can read more about Waterloo House in the history of Hodson’s Folly
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