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Two adjoining brick houses with dark blue front doors, sash windows, and white shutters under a dark pitched roof.

5-6 Tennis Court Terrace

5 Tennis Court Terrace, Tennis Court Road

5 Tennis Court Terrace

1881

Susan Brown, widow, 66, college servant, b Cambridge

Louisa, 28, housekeeper, b Cambridge

Ann E Docwra, 46, domestic servant, b Barringtopn

John F Philips, lodger, 20, undergraduate, b India

Frederick G White, lodger, 25, student of Theology, b Somerset


1891

Frederick Harris, 27, college servant, ?

Catherine, 23, b London

Arthur, 2, b Cambridge

Phillip, 1, b Cambridge

Alan W, 1m, b Cambridge


1901

Frederick Harris, 37, college servant, b Oxford

Catherine, 42, college servant, b London

Arthur, 12,  b Cambridge

Henry, 11,  b Cambridge

Allen, 10,  b Cambridge

Daisy, 8,  b Cambridge

Jessie, 4,  b Cambridge


Five children stand in front of a brick house with a number 5 door and a wooden fence at 5 Tennis Court Terrace in Cambridge.

Redding children circa 1910 outside house

1911

Frank E Redding, 38, builder, b Cambridge [in 1901 the family were living at 8 Humberstone Road]

Helen G, 41, b Cambridge

Georgina F, 11, b Cambridge

Alfred E, 9, b Cambridge

Vera D, 7, b Cambridge

Kathleen, 5, b Cambridge

Clarence B S, 3, b Cambridge


1913

Frank Edgar Redding

Frank E Redding and his father built Tennis Court Terrace. His great granddaughter reported that her grandmother told a story of a lab technician who visited all the house early in WWII and told them to tape up their windows because someone was going to split the atom at the Cavendish Laboratory and they did not know what was going to happen!


1939

Frank E Redding, b 1870, incapacitated

Helen G, b 1868, lodging house keeper


1962

William H Squire

Building dates

  • Built by 1899
Source for this date
  • Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900

Tags

  • world war two

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