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5 West Road (New Road), West House / West House Hotel

History of 5 West Road

1871 New Road

Jabez Jay Chater, 36, nurseryman seedsman, florist, fruiterer and gardener, b Essex

[Jabez had purchased the Gonville Nursery in West Road in 1862. He died suddenly in his sleep 19th March 1873]

Harriett, 31, b London

Arthur Brand, 9, b Essex

Alice Harriett, 7, b Cambridge

Mary Eveline, 5, b Cambridge

Alexander, 3, b Cambridge

Emma Ann Duce, servant, 16, b Grantchester

The Gonville Nursery was bought by the firm of Lyles and Speed who had a shop at 15 Petty Cury. A few years later, re-named the Newnham Nursery, it was acquired, with the Petty Cury shop, by James Sanders under whose name the seedsman’s business continued into the 20th century.

1881 West Road

Charles Clay

1891

Clay

West Road OS map 1903

1901 West House

Clay

1911

Mary Clay

1913 West House

Miss Clay

1939

Alice Clay, b 1859, private means

Edith Farrington, b 1898, cook

Elizabeth Glover, b 1895, parlourmaid

Mabel Cox, b 1895, housemaid

1962

West House Hotel, Owen Tudor proprietor

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