Wellington Street, Littleport

History of Wellington Street

Thomas Crabb ran a fried fish shop from his cottage here.

Hope House, Wellington Street c.1910

The upper rooms were used as a Dame school by Francis Ann Wise who set up the schools in the 1860s.

The lower part of the house became Mr Bamber’s radio and TV shop.

Alva Harlock, Boyhood Recollections of Littleport (1988), recalls there were two fish and chip shops run by Mrs Crabb. Ebenezer Levett had a farmyard and Mrs Wise ran a private school. Dr Glenfield Martin ran a general practice from the house once occupied by Mr A Price. Mrs Mary Atkins lived in a thatched cottage and took in boarders at 10s a week.