26 St Andrew’s Street

History of 26 St Andrew's Street

The Grand Arcade excavation report (2019) notes:

This plot (Plot XVIII) was occupied by a butcher in 1841 and then by a series of bakers from c. 1851 onwards. By 1855 the plot has heavily built over. Many of the new structures were built in the 1840s or 1850s as they included a specialized bake house oven with ‘covered flues’ but this had left no trace. A small pit, Pit 62, was dug c. 1873–1900 to dispose of some domestic refuse including a potted game container. Developments in the 1880s at Plot XVII meant that Plot XVIII was partially enclosed by substantial walls and by 1885 the garden had been built over.

1851 unnumbered

John Stevenson, 47, breadbaker, b Kent

May, 46, b Harston

Sarah Laurie, visitor, 28, servant, b Cambridge

Martha Huddlestone, 30, servant, b Waterbeach

George Langford, 24, journeyman baker, b Cambridge

George Mitchell, 17, bakers boy, b b Berks

John Thomas Hyde, 20, Emmanuel College scholar, b Surrey

Owen Marden, lodger, 21, Christs College scholar, b Sussex

1861

Charles Gray, 25, master baker

Harriette

Elizabeth Wrigglesworth, visitor, 27, b Yorks

Harriet Wellam, 20, servant, b Coton

George Frost, 23, journeyman baker, b Cambridge

Thomas Sharp, 18, errand boy, b Cambridge

Alfred Godson, 24, doctor of medicine?, b London

Joseph Milne, 19, student, b Lancs

1871

Charles Gray, 35, master baker and confectioner, b Cambridge

Harriette, 35, b Cambridge

Annie H, 8, b Cambridge

Arthur C, 4, b Cambridge

Emma Armitage, 19, b Cambridge

Robert Thurston, 33, journeyman baker, b Norfolk

Henry Hearne, 21, journeyman baker, b Chesterton

Alfred Denbridge, 14, errand boy, b Thurnford

1881 Bakers shop

William Thurston, 31, confectioner

Emma

Ernest, 8 ms, b Cambridge

Elizabeth Graves, mother in law, 64, b Cottenham

Sarah A, sister in law, 27, b Cottenham

Roanden D H B Smith, lodger, 21, undergraduate, b Cornwall

Esther Braddy, 16, housemaid, b Little Wilbraham

Alice Ingrey, 19, servant, b Barton

1891

William Thurston, 40, confectioner

Emma

Sarah Millers, 21, cook, b Barrington

Eliza Wallis, 16, housemaid, b Stetchworth

1901

William Thurston, 52, confectioner, b Cambridge

Emma, 56, b Cottenham

Mabel Rickard, 19, servant, b Cambridge

1911

William Thurston, 62, confectioner, b Cambridge

Emma, 67, b Cottenham

Maud Lawrence, 23, servant, b Balsham

1913

William Thurston, baker and confectioner

1962

Thornhills, bakers

26 St Andrew’s Street (MoC271.71)