214 & 216 Mill Road ©David Betts 2014
214 & 216 Mill Road
History of 214 & 216 Mill Road
1901
(214) Bootmakers Shop
George Barton, 39, shoemaker employed at home, b Cambridge
The Barton family were previously at 4 (later renumbered 35) Vinery Road.
(216) Tobacconist’s Shop
George Parker, 73, tobacconist, b Sussex
Elizabeth, 71, b Arundel
Edith M, 26, librarian, b Cambridge
In 1881 the Parkers were living in Coronation Place.
George had changed his profession by 1901, when he is recorded on the census at the age of 73 as a tobacconist operating from a shop at 216 Mill Road, Cambridge. George died of cardiac failure following 21 days of pneumonia at 24 Ross Street, Cambridge on 12 August 1908. His wife, Elizabeth, died at the same address on 13 March 1910 (stomach cancer 7 months, asthenia 2 months). (Email from NS 2022)
1962
(214 & 216)
Ivor H Dennis, tobacconist
(214a) Harold G Jordan
(216a) Mrs B Woodward
2007
Yasrab Newsagents
In 2007 Cambridge Untold magazine interviewed many Mill Road people including Abubakar and Arafat Siddiq who ran Yasrab Newsagents.
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