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Trumpington Street, 1862. On the far left is Hall's bookshop (J Palmer Clarke)

51 Trumpington Street

History of 51 Trumpington Street

Listed Building

Early C19. 3 storeys; gault brick; stone band below parapet; 2 windows west front, with modern shop window on ground floor; symmetrically designed front to Pembroke Street, 3 windows, flat brick arches, glazing bars; central round-headed doorway of 2 orders now blocked and window substituted. Iron railing to balcony on first floor west front.

1851

John Hall, 52, bookseller publisher 5 men 2 apprentices 2 errand boys, b Cambridge

Mary, 50, b Cambridge

John, 28, bookseller, b Cambridge

William Crabb Hall, 13, b Cambridge

Elizabeth Yaxley, 19, servant, b Grantchester

Jane Ward, 19, servant, b Ditton


1913

J Hall and Son, booksellers, publishers


1962

W Heffer, booksellers

 

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