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A man in a flat cap and coat sits behind a wheeled sharpening cart with a sign reading Scissors and Knives Sharpened Also Saws.

Levi Loveridge, Qua Fen, Soham, c1930

35 Qua Fen Common, Soham

History of 35 Qua Fen Commom

Levi Loveridge toured the Cambridge area in the 1930s sharpening knives and scissors. Sue Slack’s ‘Cambridge’ states that he was the father of 16.

1889 born at HM Prison, Lavenham

1901 Wickham Skeith, Suffolk

1911 Nottingham

1914 Military service

1915 Hertfordshire

1962 Caravan, Willow Farm, Sutton Gault

1970 address at death 35 Qua Fen Common

A man in a waistcoat and cap and a woman in a headscarf stand side-by-side in a field of low-growing plants in late sunlight.

Levi Loveridge

 

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