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Willow Place (MoC141/71)

Willow Place

History of Willow Place

1851

(32)

Henry Pont, 30, shoemaker, b Ramsel

Sarah Pont, 32, b Gransden

Henry Pont, 4, b Cambridge

Samuel Pont, 2, b Cambridge

William Pont 1, b Cambridge

Ellen Pont, 22, sister,b Cambridge

William Robson, 18, shoemaker’s apprentice.

In 1841 the Pont family were at 12 James Street

In 1861 see 12 Fair Street

1861

Henry Pont, 41, shoemaker,

Sarah, 43,

Henry, 14,

Samiel, 12,

William, 10,

George, 8,

Frederick, 5,

Walter, 1 mth,

In 1871 the Pont family is at 19 St Peters Street

1881 24 Willow Place

Henry Brown, 26, college kitchen porter,

Emily, 28, b Cambridge

Florence, 5, b Cambridge

Alfred, 4, b Cambridge

Alice, 2, b Cambridge

In 1871 the family were living at 6 Shelley Row

In 1891 they were living at the Pike and Eel in Chesterton

1913

NORTH SIDE

1-19

CAUSEWAY PASSAGE

EAST SIDE

GARDEN COTTAGES

1-5

SOUTH SIDE

27-36

1962

NORTH SIDE

(2/3) Sidney F Thurlbourn

(4) Mrs Caddick

(5) Miss D Newling

(6) Leonard W Newling

(7) Albert Cooper

St Tibbs Press

(17) Frederick Freestone

(18) Dennis Gurner

(19) Mrs Gurner

SOUTH SIDE

(27) Ernest C Gray

(28) Charles A Dorling

(29) Mrs E Anderson

(3) Charles Richard Barrett

(31) William H Lucchesi

(32) Mrs W Matthews

(33) Mrs L L Burgess

(34) Mrs M Newman

(35) William J Silk

(36) Mrs Bilton

Labgear

Note from BT in 2025:

(3) I lived at number 3 from 1947-1963. My father was a POW in Singapore and got a job on his return with Greene King and so that was where I lived. It had a Shared kitchen with number 2; the yard was 8ft x4ft and had two toilets . In number 2 was the stairs for both houses,  one bedroom and a small box room off the bedroom. I don’t know when number 2 left but we then had their bedroom too! Mushrooms were abundant under the stairs and I used to play with mice in my pram! No hot water – only by heating the copper. Kitchen was also 8ft x 4ft. Tin bath for us all; sister who was younger slept in the same bedroom as me until ’63 .

 

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