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34 High Street, Wilburton, Walter Hazell on right, wife and children and assistant in doorway (Cambs Collection)

34 High Street, Wilburton

History of 34 High Street

In 1871 Walter’s father, Joseph,  is a tailor, aged 46, at “End of Little Field” Wilburton

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In 1881 Walter Hazell is 12, living with his widowed mother, Eliza, 42, a stocking knitter, in High Street Wilburton

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1901 High  Street General Store

Walter Hazell, 31, grocer & draper, b Wilburton

Elizabeth, 26, b Earith

Harold W, 2m, b Wilburton

Dorothy E, 1, b Wilburton

Florence M Clarke, 21, sister in law, b Norfolk

Frederick Pattman, assistant, 26, grocer and draper’s assistant, b Arrington

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1911

Walter Hazell, 42, widower, grocer and draper, b Wilburton

Sarah Ann Clarke, mother in law widow, 57, b Over

Dorothy Eliza, 11, b Wilburton

Garold Walter, 9, b Wilburton

Ronald William, 6, b Wilburton

Hilda Nellie Lilley, 18, draper assistant, b Essex

Sarah Ann Knight, 15, servant, b Stretham

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The shop was then run by his son, Harold and family until it closed in 1979. The premises then became a shop with post office.

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