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Pale brick residential terrace on Searle Street with multiple upper-floor bay windows and a dark ground-level entrance tunnel.

71 Searle Street

71 Searle Street, Hosiery Manufactory

History of Hosiery Manufactory

1913

Luke Eyres, hosiery manufactory

A printed advertisement featuring text and a line drawing of several women working at tables in a hosiery manufacturing shop.

L Eyres (National Newspaper Archive)

1970

L Eyres (Knitwear) hosiery mfrs

1980

View down a narrow street in Cambridge with brick buildings on either side, including a large two-storey structure on the right.

Hale factory site c.1980 (Cambridgeshire Archive)

A low-contrast, grainy view of a Cambridge street lined with brick buildings, with a figure walking in the foreground.

Hale factory site c.1980 (Cambridgeshire Archive)

2021

A street corner in Cambridge with yellow brick houses, parked cars, a bicycle leaning on a signpost, and a clear blue sky.

71 Searle Street

71 Searle Street and the buildings to its rear now occupy the old factory site.

Building dates

  • Built 1976–1982
Source for this date
  • Built 1976–1982: EPC construction age band: 1976–1982

Projects

  • Searle Street

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