34 (6) Cambridge Road, Ely

History of 34 Cambridge Road

1906 house built as no.6

1908 Mallyan Thompson came to live

Mallyan Thompson’s reminiscences of life in Ely can be found in Ely Memories, 1998.

1911

Sidney Cooke Thompson, 37, pharmaceutical chemist, b Norfolk

Annie Chadwick, 36, b Worcs

Hilda Mallyan, 6, b Yors

Amy Piper, 27, servant, b Lincs

Sidney Cooke had trained as a botanist. He came to work at Sturton and Howard’s the chemists. Within a few years he bought the firm from Miss Howard.

1921

Hilda Mallyan was at school in Southampton. Before this she went to school at Bedford House, St Mary’s Street.

Cambridge Road, Ely OS 1925

Houses in Cambridge Road were renumbered in the 1930s. Mallyan Thompson states: In the 1930s they built more houses and started to number them. We were number 6 but then you see, we ended up number 34! There was Mr Coy’s field; on the corner you see was the Lamb Hotel garden where they had fruit trees. Mt Coy’s field was from the Lamb Hotel garden up to Croylands. And then Mr Coy died and and they talked about building there. Cutlacks the brewers lived at Croylands and Mrs Cutlack said, ‘What! Houses there, and me having to look over houses. Indeed I’ll have no such thing.’ She went and bought the field for £1000, so we were alright.

1939 (34):

Sidney C Thompson, b 1873, pharmaceutical chemist

Annie C, b 1874,

Hilda Mallyan, b 1905, school teacher

Joan M Wallace, b 1914

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WWII

Mallyan worked as Home Guard secretary for Colonel Cutlack.