A red telephone box stands in the foreground of a 1930s street scene with a chemist’s shop on a corner and a delivery van.

Sidney Street / Petty Cury – 22 Petty Cury – 1930 by H S Johnson (Cambridgeshire Collection)

71 Sidney Street / 22 Petty Cury, Cambridge

History of 71 Sidney Street

1841

William Lyon, 25, chemist

Louisa, 20

James Hudd, 17, apprentice

Susan Plumb, 20, servant

Circular white cardboard box with black printed text: Gout & Rheumatic Pills, prepared only by W. Lyon, Chemist, Cambridge.

W Lyon, Petty Cury (MoC)

1851

Henry Lyon, chemist master, 29, b Cambridge

Angelica, 28, b Kent

William Craswellen, assistant, 25, b Hants

John Dowaward, assistant, 21, b Lancs

Mary Rowlands, 24, servant.b Stapleford

1861 (22 Petty Cury)

John Yeomans, chemist and druggist employing 1 man and 1 boy

Sarah Levett, housekeeper,

Serocold C Skeels, 21, lodger, student of Emmanuel College, b Chatteris

Herbert Mather, 20, lodger, scholar b Walton

Arthur S Mather, 18, lodger, attorney’s articled clerk, b Walton

1871 (22 Petty Cury)

John Yeomans

Sarah Levett, servant

1881 (22 Petty Cury)

John Yeomans, chemist employing 3 men and 2 boys,

Sarah Levett, 45, housekeeper,

Arthur A Goodall, 22, chemist, b Yorks

1891 (22 Petty Cury)

John Yeomans, 53, chemist and dentist, b Leicestershire

Sarah Levett, 55, housekeeper, b Suffolk

John H Dressler, errand boy, 14, b Hildersham

1898 CDN 17th December: A stroll through Petty Cury, Cambridge and a glance at the shop windows of Boots Limited gives a good idea of the effort which this firm has made to cater for all tastes and all classes. Those desirous of purchasing suitable presents for their cousins, their aunts, and sweethearts should pay a visit to Boots, in the Cury.

1901 (22 Petty Cury)

Horace S Beale, 32, chemist druggist, b Cambridge

1913 (71 Sidney Street)

H S Beale (late Yeomans) chemist

1938

A policeman and pedestrians pass Turner and Sons on a corner, where a figure stands on a low roof below a Nestle Milk sign.

Turner and Sons, Petty Cury in 1938 during redevelopment for the new Boots chemist store (photo J Johnson)

In 1930 work started on a new shopping development which focussed on the enlarged Boots the chemist.

A policeman in uniform stands with arms outstretched at a street corner with a brick building and pedestrians in the background.

Junction of Petty Cury and Sidney Street in 1938. Police Constable Jeffrey Saddington (Cambridgeshire Collection)

1939 (22 Petty Cury)

Turner and Sons, opticians

Miss Dora Papworth, ladies’ hairdressers

Pedestrians walk along a stone-fronted building on Petty Cury in Cambridge, featuring ground-floor shops and festive lights.

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