The reverse side of an Edwardian postcard with handwritten correspondence, a green postage stamp, and a museum ink stamp.

Senate House Cambridge Conferring Degrees

3 St Andrew’s Street

History of 3 St Andrew's Street

C15th – C16th: plots I-II (nos 3-5) were owned by Christ’s College. A considerable number of the college’s staff – particularly beadles – came to lease these plots. (See Grand Arcade Archaeological Report pub 2019)

1851

William Aves, 34, tailor and draper employing 14 men, b Essex

Mary Ann

William O, 4, b Cambridge

Lucy E, 1, b Cambridge

Henry Woodruff, apprentice, 20, b Kent

George Smee, apprentice, 15, Kent

Mary Badcock, servant, 20, b Liddlington

Elizabeth Osbourne, servant, 19, b Suffolk

George Lowndes, lodger, 21, student of Trinity College, b Lancs

Algernon Hoggo, lodger, 26, undergraduate of Christs College, b London

James H Smith, lodger, 23, graduate Christs College, b Suffolk

1861

Mary Ann Aves, 43, tailor and robe maker, b Northants

Mary A P, 16, b Cambridge

Ernest H, 3, b Cambridge

Katharine Cales, 33, visitor, b Longstanton

Mary Webster, 43m, charwoman, b Willingham

Harriett, 20, servant, b Over

Leonard C Brown, lodger, 37, private tutor, b Beds

1871

Edward Bennett, 45, tailor and robe maker, b Sussex

Mary A, 53, b Northants

Mary A Aves, step daughter, 26, governess, b Cambridge

William B Aves, step son, 24, draper, b Cambridge

Ernest Aves, step son, 13, b Cambridge

Martha Stukins, 15, servant, b Longstanton

1881

Emma Kemp, 45, lodging house keeper, b Suffolk

Edward B Tawney, lodger, 39, student, b Warwicks

Eliza Hall, servant, 21, b Isleham

Ann E Hall, 6, b Isleham

1891?

1901

Jane Harrod, 53, upholstress

Emma Tree, 23, servant, b Balsham

1911

Jane Saunders Harrod, 63, lodging house keeper, b Norfolk

Robert Heron Rastall, boarder, 39, Fellow of Christs, b Yorks

Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, boarder, 32, Fellow of Christs, b Bucks

An oil painting of a balding, white-bearded older man in round spectacles, a dark pinstripe suit, and a blue necktie.

F H A Marshall

Elizabeth Mary Smith, boarder, 40, florist manageress, b Cambridge

Maud Beatrice Dunn, 20, servant, b Cambridge

St Andrew's Street lined with brick buildings, bunting, and numerous British flags with pedestrians walking on the pavement.

3 St Andrew’s Street and other properties, decorated for the coronation of George V, 1911 (Cambridgeshire Collection)

A black-and-white architectural drawing showing floor plans for five 19th-century commercial and residential buildings.

19th century combined shop and dwelling houses in Cambridge

A horse-drawn double-decker tram moves down a street lined with multi-storey buildings and pedestrians in period clothing.

3 St Andrew’s Street circa 1910

Two men stand in the doorway of a shop named Harry Johnson & Nephew with a young boy leaning against the window frame outside.

3 St Andrew’s Street circa 1910 (MoC 190/75)

1913

H Johnson & Nephew, booksellers, stationers and newsagents

Mrs Harrod

A stall labeled Harry Johnson & Nephew with newspaper and book shelves and a man standing behind the counter outdoors.

Harry Johnson’s stall in Burrell’s Walk at the entrance to the First Eastern General Hospital in WWI (MoC20/75)

A printed advertisement for Harry Johnson & Nephew, stationers and booksellers at 3 St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge.

Harry Johnson, 3 St Andrew’s Street

A printed billhead for Harry Johnson and Nephew of 3 St. Andrew's Street, featuring a dated ink stamp from March 4, 1938.

Harry Johnson, 3 St Andrew’s Street

A yellowed, patterned paper invoice for Harry Johnson & Nephew stationers, featuring a stamped paid date of 19 June 1930.

Harry Johnson, 3 St Andrew’s Street

1919

David Scates was living here with his daughter Jane Saunders Harrod at the time of his death on the 13th May 1919. David was a retired tailor and had lived on Sturton Street for over thirty years.

A crowd of people in 1920s attire stand on a sidewalk outside a shop with display windows and signs on St Andrew's Street.

3 St Andrew Street c.1929 (MoC82/71)

1962

Barclay’s Bank Ltd

John H Cooper

Projects

St Andrew's Street

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