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Photo by Simon Middleton 20221861: (17 – 19)
(17) William Branon [sic], 43, printer, b London
(18) Benjamin Rivers, 39, G E R guard, b Suffolk
(19) Henry Pilgrim, 37, blacksmith, b Norfolk
1871: (17 – 19)
(17) William Brannan, 53, printer compositor, b London
(18) Henry Pilgrim, 49, blacksmith, b Norfolk
(19) Sarah Pilgrim, wife, 46, b Bottisham
1881: (17 – 19)
(17) William Hawkes Brannan, 63, printer reader, b Middlesex
(18) Henry Pilgrim, 58, blacksmith to builder, b Norfolk
(19) Benjamin Reeve, master carpenter and joiner, b Norfolk
1891: (34 & 36)
32, 34 and 36 were all occupied by the same family
Ethel Warnes, 14, daughter, scholar, b Cambs
1901: (68)
Frank Bates, 34, grocer’s manager, b Bucks
1913
Meadowsweet Dairy Co.
Goodwin Foster Brown Ltd, proprietors
Frank Bates, manager
1962
Meadowsweet Dairy, grocers
Alfred Wilkinson
The Wilkinson family took over the Meadowsweet in 1916. Alfred came as a manager from Yorkshire in 1916. Alfred finally bought the business in 1930.
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1982
Meadow Sweet Dairy Co. Ltd
Courtesy of the Wilkinson family
Courtesy of the Wilkinson family
Courtesy of the Wilkinson family
Alfred Wilkinson was manager of the Meadowsweet Dairy from 1919 to 1972. He was also secretary of the Gladstone Liberal Club from 1923 to 1939 (see the Sturton Town Hall building report).
Courtesy of the Wilkinson family
Photo by Tessa MacDermott
Courtesy of Ann Horn and the Suzy Oakes Collection
Courtesy of Ann Horn and the Suzy Oakes Collection
68 Mill Road (2014 David Betts)
Remy’s, June 2019. Photo by Pam Wesson.
Damasbridge, September 2020. Photo by Mary Naylor.
Damasbridge, summer 2020. Photo by Pam Wesson.
Damasbridge Interior 2020, photo by Kate Collins
The name of their café, Damasbridge, was chosen by the two bothers who run it to stress the links between Damascus, where they lived before and Cambridge. The large painting on the café wall, painted by Mouna Alrayes, shows The Al Omani mosque in Damascus linked by the Bridge of Sighs to Kings College Chapel and other churches in the city. The painting below it, of a similar theme, was done by a young relative.
Photo by Simon Middleton 2022
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