55 Hills Road Cambridge (2017 RGL)

55 (39) Hills Road (Temperance Hotel)

History of 55 Hills Road

1841

Little

1861

(39) Ward

1871

(45? Hills Road)

John Smith, 29, grocer master employing 2 men, born Dorset

Ellen, 29, born Suffolk

Edwin Stone, 21, grocer’s assistant, born Notting Hill

Mary Denry, 16, servant, born Kent

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1881

(Temperance Hotel)

John H Fox, 34, upholsterer and proprietor of Temperance Hotel, born Norfolk

Sarah A, 27, born Cambridge

Charles E, 9, born Cambridge

Ernest J, 3, born Cambridge

Lucy A Chapman, 20, servant, born London

In 1891 the Fox family were at 14 Mawson Road

1886

55 Hills Road is shown as ‘County Laboratory’ on 1886 OS map. This is very close to the 6 Claremont with the Public Analyst lived.

1891

(unoccupied)

1901

(shop and showrooms)

1913

John Henry Fox, cabinet maker, upholsterer, bedding manufacturer and general furnisher