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A street scene with a horse-drawn butcher’s cart in the foreground, shops on the left, and a long iron fence on the right.

St Andrew’s St outside Emmanuel College. Left foreground is passageway to St Columba’s Hall, then nos 35 – 30 St Andrew’s Street. (MoC)

35 (36) St Andrew’s Street

History of 35 (36) St Andrew's Street

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: No.36 is of two storeys with cellars and attics. Where the old walls survive they are of plastered timber-framing. It was built in the first half of the 17th cent. but the street-front has been entirely rebuilt and the ground and first floor cleared inside in modern times.

1861 (35)

James Rickards, 65, builder, b Cambridge


1913 (35)

O A Strapp, silversmith and jeweller

(35a) S. Columba’s Hall, Enoch Circuit custodian


Letterhead for Constance E. Pyle featuring printed text, a handwritten signature, and a drawing of a woman in a long gown.

35 St Andrew’s Street

Black and white studio portrait of a woman with finger-waved hair wearing a light blouse and a dark waistcoat-style top.

Constance Pyle circa 1930

These were the premises of Constance Pyle, dressmaker from about 1931 to 1934. She was previously at 73 Mill Road. Her business addresses later would be 6 Hills Road and then 28 Bateman Street.

A typed and handwritten legal document dated 1931, detailing a lease for 35 St Andrew's Street to Miss Constance E. Pyle.

1931 Lease of 35 St Andrew’s Street to Constance Pyle

A document showing business stationery for a costumiere, featuring a line drawing of a woman in an ornate dress beside a mirror.

Business stationery of Constance Pyle


1962 (35)

Varsity Restaurant


2018 (36a)

Wagamama

 

A street scene with a horse-drawn butcher’s cart in the foreground, shops on the left, and a long iron fence on the right.Pedestrians walk along a sidewalk beside a busy St Andrew's Street with shops on the left and a stone building on the right.

 

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