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1901: The Factory House
Alfred J Banyard, 39, grocer’s carman
Julia H, 40
Wheatley J Steed, boarder, 19, florists apprentice, b Cambs
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1911: Sweet Factory Garden Walk
Alfred John Banyard, 49, van driver, b Cambridge
Julia Hannah, 50, b Landbeach
William Lionel Buxton, boarder, 20, scientific instrument maker, b London
Frank Fincher, 12, b Landbeach
Jesse Huckle, 36, boarder, widower, labourer electric lighting, b Stapleford
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1913:
W Pollard and Co, Victoria Confectionery Works
The Cottage: Alfred John Banyard, grocer’s carman
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Enid Porter in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore, p14, notes:
Pollard and Co, sugar boilers and confectioners, were established in Cambridge from c.1884 until 1934. Their Victoria Confectionery Works were in Garden Walk; in addition, until 1921 they had a sweet shop in Petty Cury and, up to c. 1909, another on Peas Hill.
She wrote of the sympathetic pains that men believed they had as a result of their wife’s pregnancy:
“I always remember the time that I worked at sugar boiling at Pollit’s [Pollard’s] sweet factory; there was a yong man there and he had a terrible time while his wife was carrying. He thought at first it was his teeth so he had them all taken out; but of course it wasn’t and he might have well have kept them in. It lasted all through the nine months and then stopped as soon as the baby came. And you know. he would never have another child after that one.”
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