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A long, two-story brick terrace building lines a narrow street, with dense trees partially obscuring the front and roofline.

Steam Laundry Cottages c1950. No. 6 is closest to the camera which is looking north.

Laundry Cottages (3), Laundry Lane, Cambridge

History of 3 Laundry Cottages

1891

George Patten, 30, carman, born Cherryhinton

Jane, 26, laundress, born Cherryhinton

Percy George, 2, born Cherryhinton

1901

William Tingery, 33, foreman coal porter, born Herts

Minnie, 32, born Cambridge

Frances, 10, born Cambridge

William E, 8, born Cambridge

Dorothy, 1, born Cambridge

1911

(Steam Laundry Cottages)

George Walker Miller, 40, hydro man laundry, born Edinburgh

Olive Harriett, 47, forewoman laundry, born St Pancras

William Frederick George, 11, born Middlesex

Ropbert Risk [?], 8, born Middlesex

1939

Olive Miller, b 1862, laundry work preparer


For Penny Jackson’s reminiscences of Laundry Lane see:

https://www.michellebullivant.com/cherryhintonhistory#/

 

Sources

  • 1891 census
  • 1901 census
  • 1911 census
  • 1939 register
  • Photographs

Projects

  • Cherry Hinton Road

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