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Two adjacent terraced houses with cream brick facades, red wooden doors, and multi-paned windows under a tiled roof.

7 & 8 Pembroke Street Cambridge

7 Pembroke Street

History of 7 Pembroke Street

1851

Robert Royston, 22, painter writer and grainer, b Cambridge

Sarah, 22, b Cambridge

In 1861 the family were at 27 Jesus Lane

A newspaper advertisement in black text on a white background offering services for painting, graining, and an apprenticeship.

R Royston, 7 Pembroke Street, 15.10.1853 (British Newpaper Archive)


1861

George Playford, 21, bricklayer, b Norfolk

1913

Ebenezer Smith, saddler and harness maker

1937 (7 & 8)

Mrs Rose Orders, newsagent and tobacconist

1962

Ernest Yarrow

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