1 Park Terrace

History of 1 Park Terrace

1871

Joseph Sturton, 55, chemist and landowner, b Sleaford Lincs

Elizabeth C, 47, b Cambridge

Susanna, 18, b Cambridge

Richard, 16, chemist’s apprentice, b Cambridge

Joseph A, 14, b Cambridge

Mary E, 13, b Cambridge

Esther, niece, 25, visitor,  b Northants

Margaret Gray, 19, servant, b Fulbourn

Susan E Farrow, 16, housemaid, b Swaffham

In 1861 Joseph Sturton was living at 119 Fitzroy Street

In 1851 he was at 112 Fitzroy Street

Jospeh Sturton, retail chemist, alderman and and mayor, bought a large area in the Mill Road-Newmarket Road district, originally part of the Barnwell Fields. In the Cambridge Graphic 5 Jan 1901 there is a sketch of Joseph Sturton: It was in the second year of the reign of Queen Victoria that Mr Sturton came to Cambridge and founded the business in Fitzroy Street that is now carried on by members of his family. Fortune favoured him, as it always does favour industry and sagacity, and the business became firmly established. Mr Sturton’s opportunities of benefiting at once himself and his town came when he was enabled to purchase land on the north side of Cambridge, then open fields, now thickly covered with house. Mr Sturton had the foresight to recognise the possibilities that were in this land, and he had the courage of his convictions. In the result his sagacity has been magnificently vindicated. He bought extensively, and when the time cam, he sold. Sturton enabled owner -occupiers to make repayments for their houses over a series of years. This made it much easier for working class people to become owner occupiers.

By 1874 , 34 houses had been built including Haylock Cottages (a terrace of 5 houses) and Troy Cottages (including a bakery and a public house, the City Arms).

In Down Your Street, 1984, p.93 it notes: In the late 1860s Joseph Sturton, the wholesale chemist in Fitzroy Street bought a slab of land from the Geldarts and laid out Gwydir Street. Development started in the stretch between Norfolk Street and the corner of Hooper Street where the street is today blocked by bollards. Sturton chopped the land up into 16 ft-frontage blocks and these did extremely well, being snapped up by prospective builders.

1881

Joseph Sturton, 65, farmer of 92 acres employing 6 men and 3 boys,

Mary E, 23, daughter,

Emma Bullard, servant, 40, cook, b Herts

Emma Whitehead, 17, housemaid, b Cottenham

1891

Joseph Sturton, 75, retired chemist

Elizabeth C, 67

Miriam Howard, daughter, 43, b Cambridge

Celia Ayres, 29, servant, b Bottisham Lode

1901

Joseph Sturton

1911

1913

Howard Humphreys

1962

Douglas J V Fisher

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