A street view of terraced houses with bay windows, varying brick and painted facades, and parked bicycles on the pavement.

23 & 24 Orchard Street

24 Orchard Street

History of 24 Orchard Street

1940

Gladys Cable came to live here in Dunkirk week. They rented at first and then bought their house from Kathleen Humm who lived at no.25. Her husband’s grandfather was Henry Cable, the baker of Sturton Street.

Gladys’s daughter is the singer Margaret Cable, married to John Fletcher, tuba player in the London Symphony Orchestra.

An older woman with glasses sits in an armchair holding a light-colored cat, surrounded by various ornaments and house plants.

Gladys Cable c.1980

1962 Sidney F Cable

1970 Sidney F Cable

Projects

Orchard Street

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