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St Andrew's Street nos 26 - 30The 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1891:
William Thurston, 40, confectioner
Emma
Sarah Millers, 21, cook, b Barrington
Eliza Wallis, 16, housemaid, b Stetchworth
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1901:
William Thurston, 52, confectioner, b Cambridge
Emma, 56, b Cottenham
Mabel Rickard, 19, servant, b Cambridge
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1911:
William Thurston, 62, confectioner, b Cambridge
Emma, 67, b Cottenham
Maud Lawrence, 23, servant, b Balsham
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1913:
William Thurston, baker and confectioner
1962:
Thornhills, bakers
26 St Andrew’s Street
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