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Crabb's Corner, Wellington Street, Littleport 1909

Wellington Street, Littleport

History of Wellington Street

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

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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.

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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.

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