23, Waddington Terrace, St Mary’s Street, Ely

History of 23 St Mary's Street

This was the house where Hilda Marjory Ingle was born in 1882. In 1890 the family moved to Denmark House. This was on Common Road that later became Prickwillow Road. her reminiscences of Ely are recorded in Ely Memories, 1998.

One day when we were out walking with our nursemaid we saw a small excited crowd outside the lamb Hotel. We joined it and were told they were watching a carriage standing at the door of the Hotel. The marvel was that it had arrived there without a horse! This was a ghost carriage! Presently a man came out of the hotel, stepped into the carriage and, as if by magic, it moved away. We had seen our first motor-car.

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1939

William Barnett, b 1881, brewers secretary