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Stone facade of the Boots shop on Sidney Street with gabled upper floors, parked cars, and a man standing on the pavement.

65 – 67 Sidney Street, Boots (MoC29/160/69)

65 Sidney Street

History of 65 Sidney Street

1861

William Stevens, sadler employing 3 men, b Littleport


1886

A 1886 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing Holy Trinity Church, its graveyard, a Savings Bank, and surrounding street plots.

OS 1886 Cambridge

Properties on Sidney Sussex Street, west side, south of Holy Trinity Church as far as Petty Cury, seem quite hard to locate in the censuses accurately. In 1886 a bank is shown where no.65 would have expected to be. In 1842 a bakery was put up for sale at what appears to be this location, next to Trinity Church. This was part of the Nutter sale of 1842.

A printed 1842 document describing the sale of property at 65 Sidney Street, detailing the baking concern and adjacent house.

Sidney Street bakery, 1842, Nutter sale (Cambridgeshire Archives)


1891

Thomas J H Hunnybun, 31, coach harness maker, b Cambridge

Emma L, 30, b Cambridge

Margaret S, 2, b Cambridge

Constance N, 1, b Cambridge

Edith W, 4 mos, b Cambridge

Hannah E Simkin, 23, servant, b Waterbeach

Susan A Chamberlain, 15, nurse, b Cambridge

A man, woman, and three children stand with a goat harnessed to a small, two-wheeled carriage before a metal fence.

Mr Hunnybun with family and goat cart c1890 (MoC113/76)


1901 Shop and House

George Wickes, 62, retail jeweller, b Warwicks

Mary Filbrook, 19, servant, b Suffolk

(65a) printing office vacant


1962 (65-57)

Boots Cash Chemists


 

Stone facade of the Boots shop on Sidney Street with gabled upper floors, parked cars, and a man standing on the pavement.A multi-story stone building on Sidney Street features ground-floor retail units, including a brightly lit Wasabi restaurant.

 

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