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31 Market Hill c. 1931Richard S Graves, 47, linen draper, b Lincs
Marianne C, 39, b Northants
Fanny S, 7, b Cambridge
Mary W, 5, b Cambridge
John J, 4, b Cambridge
Sarah, 3, b Cambridge
Edith, 1, b Cambridge
Richard W, 3 mos, b Cambridge
Francis E Hubbard, 24, draper assistant, b Leics
Arthur G Pattison, 17, draper apprentice, b Yorks
James B Frost, 15, draper apprentice, b Suffolk
Lizzie Mills, milliner, 22, b Waterbeach
Emma A Cruckshed, milliner, 26, b London
Sarah Ellen Fitzjohn, 24, draper’s assistant, b Rutland
Betsy Abbott, 21, servant, b Hunts
Ann Munson, 18, servant, b Cambs
Harriett Shaw, 16, servant, b Cambridge
Harriett Glascock, 13, servant, b Cambridge
Eliza Blunson, 50, dressmaker, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Heady, sister, 65, annuitant, b Cambridge
Adolfo Giordano, lodger, 30, clerk, b Italy
Romolo G Giordano, lodger, 22, clerk, b Italy
Ebenezer Tredgett opened a fruiterers shop. He also ran and lived at the Ainger Nurseries in Histon Road. Newspaper adverts show the connection of the two businesses. The Tredgett’s had a stall on Market Hill in 1875 (notice published in 1875).
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Sarah Tredgett ran the fruiterers and florists with the help of her family.
Maude Constable, with whom Ebenezer ran away to New Zealand, was a shop assistant at this time.
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Sarah Tredgett died
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Sarah Tredgett and Sons, fruiterers and florists
According to Enid Porter in ‘Victorian Cambridge’ George Tredgett had had a florist’s shop on Market Hill from the mid 19th centruy; they had bought a nursery garden business in Mill Road fro Jabez Chater in 1871. This was later sold when Mill Road was developed and they moved to the Ainger Nurseries in Histon Road.
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Last year that notices referring to Harry Tredgett can be found. Ebenezer Tredgett Junior seems to have opened a business nearby in 1913 but he then served in WWI. (email from KT 2022)
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late 20th century: Midland Bank
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2018 occupied by Cath Kidston.
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