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A row of two-story Victorian yellow-brick terraced houses with bay windows, a no-entry sign, and a person walking on the path.

73 Mill Road

73 Mill Road (31) (3 Pulling Terrace)

History of 73 Mill Road

1881 (3 Pulling Terrace)

Robert R Cowan, 36, travelling draper, b Scotland

1891 (31)

Charles Rolfe, 41, coffee palace proprietor, b London

1901 (73)

Mary Ripley, 35, dressmaker, b Cambridge

1913

Miss Ripley, dressmaker

Registered Office of the First Cambridge Peers’ Economic Building Society, B Chater secretary

1926

A close-up of a 1926 postcard back with a red postage stamp, Liverpool postmark, and handwritten address to Miss Pyle.

1926 card to Constance Pyle

Handwritten note in black ink on light brown paper thanking the recipient for a dress and promising to write in a week.

1926 card to Constance Pyle

A note in the Pyle family history says that Constance worked at 79 Mill Road from 1916 to 1929 but this document above suggests no.73. By 1931 Constance Pyle had moved her business to 35 St Andrews Street.

The facsimile text of the 1920 section of her 1920 – 1925 order book can be found here:

 

See other entries on Constance Pyle under tag ‘pyle’, especially 28 Bateman Street,

In 1911 Constance Pyle was living at 89 Mill Road with her family.

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