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Cuthbert Williams, 7 Alexandra StreetAlexandra Street used to run south east from Petty Cury and meet the junction of St Tibb’s Row and Post Office Terrace.
1881:
(1)
Noah Castle, 51, custodian, b Herts
Hannah, 48, b Herts
Sarah Clarke, mother in law, widow, 85, former cook, b Essex
Jane Brown, 22, servant, b Beds
(2) Tram Office
Mary A Salman, widow, 55, college servant, b Cambridge
Emma M A Salmon, 27, home help, b Linton
Frederick William, 23, college servant, b Cambridge
Henry, 20, counting house assistant, b Cambridge
Frank Upton, lodger, 24, undergraduate, b Notts
George Upton, visitor, 18, civil service clerk, b Notts
(3) printing Office locked up at night
(4) solicitor’s office locked up at night
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1891:
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1901:
(16) uninhabited
(15) uninhabited
(14):
Henry Langford, 45, commission agent, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 51, b Cambridge
Harry, 24, miller’s labourer, b Cambridge
Mabel, 21, parlour maid, b Cambridge
Daisy, 17, bookbinder, b Cambridge
Joshua, 13, b Cambridge
(13):
Lydia Gates, 48, lodging house keeper, b Trumpington
William Charles Anable, 22, poulterer, b Bourn
(12) :
Harriett M Harvey, widow, 48, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge
Frederick E E, 24, student, b Cambridge
Alice M, dressmaker, 22, b Cambridge
Lily C Clements, 20, servant, b Cambridge
(11): Mary Ann Harvey, 39, lodging house keeper, b Waterbeach
(9) – (3): uninhabited
(2):
Alice Maud O’Brien, 26 ladies hairdresser, b Leeds
Mary Mulliner, 15, hairdesser apprentice, b Cambridge
(1):
Herbert G Grounds, 39, custodian YMCA, b Cambridge
Beatrice A, 32, b London
Lily E, 12, b Chesterton
Dorothy M, 6, b Chesterton
Ernest William Gee, boarder, 18, sorting telegraph clerk. b London
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24.10.1902: The members of the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. celebrated their jubilee with a soiree in their rooms in Alexandra Street. 50 years ago the Church of England Young Men’s Society and the Sunday School Teachers’ Institute amalgamated, forming the Association. It settled in Rose Crescent. In 1853 it moved to larger premises at 5, Sidney Street, moving to Hobson Place in 1858 and then St Edward’s Passage. In 1870 the first stone was laid of their present building; it was completed a year later. To call the soiree a success is scarcely adequate; the visitors never had a dull moment from the time they entered the door until the National Anthem brought the evening to a close. (Cam. News)
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1913:
West Side, from south
(1) YMCA
YMCA c. 1925
Alexandra Hall
Post Office Telephone Service
(4) C J Smart, solicitor
(5) –
J Chater accountants
A B Chater, secretary Steam Laundry
Betram Chater, secretary First Cambs. Peers Economic Building Society
Miss Bishop, shorthand and typewriting offices
(6) Webb & Co, general printers
(7) Harry Slater, accountant
(7) R W Clarke, rent and debt collector
(7a) Alexandra Toilet Saloon
George Albert Wootten, solicitor
East Side, from north
Eastman’s butchers, side entrance
(8) Frederick Dale, brewer, wine and spirit merchant, Brewery, Gwydir Street
(9) Alexandra Chambers
(10) Jonathan Palmer, printer
(11) Miss M Harvey, University lodging house keeper
Messrs Chalk, auctioneers and estate agents
(12) Indian Tea Stores
Mrs L H Harvey, lodging house keeper
(13) Harry Colman, coachman
J Gillings, tailor
Mail Cart Entrance to Post Office
(14) Mrs M A Eaden, University lodging house keeper
Cambridge & District Bill Posting Co.
G W Goody, general shipping office
(15) Frank Searle, tailor and robe maker
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1962:
There were premises numbered 1 – 7a on the west side, 8 – 15 on the east side.
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