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104 – 106 Chesterton Road, Kasenga, Carmelite Convent
History of 104 - 106 Chesterton Road
1911
Horace George Gray, 44, manufacturer of athletic goods, b Chesterton
Ellen Mary, 43, b Colchester
Harold Douglas, 18, b Chesterton
Mary Ellen Moule, 20, servant, b Fulbourn
History of Gray family:
1913
(104) Kasenga
William Hopkin Wright
(106)
Horace George Gray, councillor of the borough
November 1923:
Carmelite nuns opened a convent at this site; their chapel served as a Mass centre for Catholics in the area. In the 1937 the decision was taken to move to Waterbeach because the Chesterton Road site had become too noisy.
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