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A street view shows a row of thatched and gabled houses with three children standing on the pavement in the foreground.

75 & 77 Chesterton High Street with Arthur’s Buildings

127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137 (79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, Arthur’s Buildings) Chesterton High Street

History of Arthur's Buildings

A detail from a 1901 Ordnance Survey map showing hatched building outlines, road lines, and labels including P and Smithy.

Arthur’s Buildings [next to P] in OS 1901 map

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1913 Arthur’s Buildings

89 Robert Beard, labourer

87 Mrs Gauge, sweet shop

85 Robert Stanford, printer

83 George Masters

81 Mrs Wilson

79 Samuel Fordham, labourer


At no.81 lived Stephen Wilson. He kept a greengrocer’s shop there, for which he grew much of his produce on a nearby allotment and a smallholding in Arbury Road. Until 1948 he used a horse and cart. (Images of England, Chesterton, Chesterton Local History Group)

A horse-drawn cart piled with produce stands by a brick building with a Wills Gold Flake advertisement, two men standing by.

129 Chesterton High Street, Stephen Wilson


In the 1950s the houses were replaced by flats.

 

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