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Jospeh Sturton, age 88, in 1901, (Cambridge Graphic)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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