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A two-story red brick shopfront with blue signage for Whittard Teas and Coffees, featuring two bay windows and window displays.

24 Petty Cury, Cambridge

History of 24 Petty Cury

1841

William Helverson [?], 29, cab maker

Charlotte, 3

Rebecca Saunders, 20, servant


1851

Henry Kent, 35, hooller [?] 1 man, b Berks

Ann, 45, milliner 8 females, b Suffolk

Elizabeth Ind, stepdaughter, 22, assistant milliner, b Cambridge

Ann Peachey, 27, assistant milliner, b Norfolk


1861

John Harlow, 43, woollen draper clothier, b Asby de la Zouche

Elizabeth, 56,  b Warwicks

Elizabeth Whittle, 81, widower,  b Warwicks


1871

Edwin H Rhodes, 24, shopman boot shop, b London

Mary A, 24, London

Emily M, 1, b London

Edith M, 1, b London


1881

William Hamilton, 62, boot and shoe warehouseman, b Ireland

Alice, 58, b Ireland

Eliza, 21, b Bucks

Robert, brother, 59, late superintendant of police, b Ireland

Frederick W Seaton, grandson, 4, b Middlesex

Elizabeth Pritchard, 17, servant, b Surrey

A sepia street view showing shop fronts with awnings, chimneys, and a distant clock tower, with a man standing in the foreground.

23 – 24 Petty Cury (MoC16/55)

 

A sepia street view showing shop fronts with awnings, chimneys, and a distant clock tower, with a man standing in the foreground.A pedestrian street in Cambridge flanked by shops, a clock tower in the distance, and strings of lights hanging overhead.

 


1891

Alice Howell, widow, 32, book seller, b Essex

Francis V, 9, b Somerset

Emma Mallyon, 19, servant, b Cambs


1901 building works


1913

Home and Colonial Tea Stores

William Joseph Taylor, solicitor

George P Banyard, architect

[Banyard worked on the University Arms Hotel and designed Mackays]

S J Stevenson

W P Steen


1962

Home & Colonial Stores, provisioners

A brick building with a Dunn & Co shopfront, featuring two bay windows on the first floor and a sign for Eros Restaurant next.

24 Petty Cury c1960s (MoC244/72)

Black and white street scene with pedestrians, cyclists, and cars passing storefronts along Petty Cury in the 1960s.

24 – 26 Petty Cury, 1960s

Black and white photograph showing a row of varied multi-story buildings behind a large, cleared construction site with rubble.

24 Petty Cury (MoC211/72)

1970

Dunn & Co, tailors

2018

Whittard teas coffees

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