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White painted commercial buildings on Market Hill with a Gap storefront, red sale window displays, and scaffolding on the right.

4 Market Hill, Cambridge

4 Market Hill

No. 4 is timber-framed but refaced in brick in the mid C18. (Pevsner)

A tinted postcard view of Hobson’s Conduit in Market Square with multi-story buildings and a horse-drawn cart in the background.

This postcard shows the same part of Market Hill circa 1900. The spire of Holy Trinity is in the background.

1846

Warren and Baker’s, grocers

1851

Thomas Carter Earl, 35, grocer, b Hungary

1871

Eliza Smith, 60, housekeeper, b Cambridge

George Nichols, lodger, 17, b Cambridge

John Barr, shopman, 24, oil-man, b London

George W Boot, 24, grocer’s shopman, b Cambs

Alfred Bull, 25, grocer’s shopman, b Landbeach

Sarah Chandler, 18, general servant, b Haslingfield

1881

1891

1901


1911

(4a)

Alice Brooks, 40, university lodging house keeper, b London

Mabel Blythe, servant, 15, b Cambs

1913

C W Green, athletic outfitter

(4a) Patrick Beales, coal and coke merchants

1921

(4a)

Alfred James Pointer, 53, cinema proprietor, b Cambridge

Agnes Jane, 49, b Cambridge

Eric Claude, 22, assistant in Victoria cinema, b Cambridge

Headley Edward, 18, assistant in Kinema cinema Mill Road, b Cambridge

Frank Albert, 17, b Cambridge

Jack, 12, b Cambridge

Lily Rose Chapman, 19, servant, b Cambridge

See entries on Victoria cinema, Kinema Mill Road and:

History of Hertford Hall Kine Ice & Cambridge Ice Cream with photos

 

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