45 Prickwillow Road, Denmark House, Ely

History of Denmark House

Ely OS 1901

Denmark House is the building with a capital P next to it.

Hilda Marjory Ingle moved to this house about 1890 from 23 St Mary’s Street. Her reminiscences about Ely can be found  in Ely Memories, 1998.

1891 Denmark House

Robert Ingle, 37, corn merchant, b Willingham

Harriet Alice Ingle, 39, b Norfolk

Hilda Marjory Ingle, 8, b Ely

Gertrude Bennett Ingle, 7, b Ely

Norman Lee Ingle, 4, b Ely

Roland George Ingle, 3, b Ely

Olive Mary Ingle, 2, b Ely

Elsor Hamell Ingle, domestic, 19, b Wilburton

Sarah Amelia Ingle, domestic, 16, b Little Thetford

Hilda recalls in Ely Memories that: Later in that month of July 1892 a great blow fell on our family. Little four year old Elsie fell ill with pneumonia (at that time nearly always fatal). There was the usual crisis, when father came down to the schoolroom to tell us gladly that Elsie was passed the worst. But a few days later he was urgently summoned from the Ely Corn Exchange. And now he came to the schoolroom to tell us that she was dead.

In that hot July three days were spent in being fitted for black clothes…….. Mother took us up to the darkened bedroom where the small body lay, almost completely covered with water-lilies from the Roswell Pits.  ….. Next day we walked in two’s, hand in hand behind the tiny white coffin and passed down a nearby lane leading to the cemetery. …

On June 22nd 1897, Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Day, all schools had a holiday. A procession. led by part of the Militia, (encamped locally) with a military band, filed past Denmark House to the Common. … At Fifteen I entered the Perse High School, Cambridge. Four short years followed, spend in quenching my thirst for knowledge, and changing the quality of my life.

1901 Common Road, Denmark House

Robert Ingle, 47, corn merchant

Harriet Alice, 49

Hilda M, 18

Gertrude B, 17,

Norman L, 16,

Roland G, 14,

Olive M, 13,

Eliza Crabb, 25, servant, b Littleport

In 1911 Hilda Ingle was in London