54 Hills Road, Co-operative Stores (28)(26)

History of 54 Hills Road

1841

(26)

Edwin Leeding, 25,

Mary, 65,

Susan Clarke, 20, servant

1851

Christopher Traylen, 58, master grocer employing 1 ?? boy, b Cambs

Catherine, 58

Hannah Banes, 17, servant, b Essex

1861

(28)

Catherine Traylen, 71, widow, grocer employing 2 shopmen, b Cambridge

Sophia Miller, 30, daughter, housekeeper, b Essex

Frederick R Miller, son in law, 22, shopman, b Chesterton

Jane Miller, 2ms, b Cambridge

Louise Atkins, servant, 14, B London

1871

(28)

Frederick R Miller, 32, grocer employer 2 boys, b Chesterton

Sophia Miller, 41, b Essex

Rosa Kate, 4, b Cambridge

George Christopher, 2, b Cambridge

Maria Miller, grandmother, 67, decayed [sic] school mistress, b Norfolk

Elizabeth Hammond, servant, 15,

1881

(28)

unoccupied

1891

George Hooper

Gertrude

Herbert John Sladen, 16, apprentice grocer, b Gloucs.

Maud Broker

1901

George Hooper, 52, b Kent, grocer

Gertrude, 47,  b Gloucs.

Maud Broker, servant, 31, b Sutton

1913

Co-operative Stores, A B Coe manager

County Surveyor’s Office, J E Blackwell

In 2001 Mr A George who lived at 27 Russell Street before WWII recalled how he would be sent on errands to thr Co-op. He was fascinated by the little boxes carrying money which used to travel on wires above the customers’ heads. He used to nibble bits off the fresh cottage loaf he bought for his mother and she would ask if a mouse had been at it.  (J Finch ‘Bull’s Milk Is Best’)

1939 (Flat over Co-op)

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