Norman Bradley Pawnbroker’s Fitzroy Street 1912 (MoC176)

29 (112, 113, 114) Fitzroy Street, Norman Bradley pawnbroker, Cambridge

History of 112-114 Fitzroy Street

1851 Fitz Roy

Joseph Sturton, 35, chemist, Sleaford Lincs

Elizabeth, sister, 39, Sleaford

Ann, sister, 32, Sleaford

Susan Sanders, 18, servant, Norfolk

In 1861 the family were at 119 Fitzroy Street

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1861

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1900 03 30

A bedmaker’s help was charged with stealing various articles of clothing from a room at Emmanuel College. She had taken four waistcoats and three pairs of trousers to Norman Bradley’s pawnbrokers in Fitzroy Street. She had also pledged a vest for 1s 6d, a pair of gold studs for 4s and a nightshirt, pants and other articles which she said were her own property. As a customer for the past 30 years, the manager was quite satisfied with her explanation.

Credit: Mike Petty, Fitzroy Street Cambridge Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

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1902 09 03

Burglars, evidently no ’prentice hands at their business, entered the premises of Messrs Norman Bradley, pawnbrokers, in Fitzroy Street, Cambridge, and after rifling the jewellery department left with goods to the value of several hundred pounds. The establishment has suffered in this way before. Iron bars have been added to windows until it might have been assumed that everything was secure against even the most determined cracksman. So the thieves turned their attention to the weakest spot—the roof.

Credit: Mike Petty, Fitzroy Street Cambridge Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

1902 09 15

The mystery attaching to the discovery of a suit of khaki clothing on the river bank at Clayhithe has been solved in a remarkable manner. The person seen by four labourers is declared not to have been a man at all, but a woman in disguise. When the khaki-clothed individual carrying a brown paper parcel was lost sight of, a woman appeared from the same direction. The theory is that the parcel contained not only a woman’s attire but was further intended to be the means of removing property which was that night to be stolen from Norman Bradley’s pawnbrokers premises in Fitzroy Street, Cambridge.

Credit: Mike Petty, Fitzroy Street Cambridge Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

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1913 (112 – 114)

Norman Bradley and Co, silversmiths and pawnbrokers

Philip Liles manager

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1927 08 11

A man was arrested in connection with the burglary at Norman Bradley’s Fitzroy Street premises, where entry had been made by forcing apart the iron bars of a window. He was traced and identified by fingerprints left on a glass panel inside the shop. They had been sent to New Scotland Yard for examination. The jewellery, which amounts to £239, has not yet been recovered.

Credit: Mike Petty, Fitzroy Street Cambridge Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

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1935 01 22

Fire destroyed the Evelyn White drapery shop in Fitzroy Street and the owner and his wife escaped in their nightclothes, with only a coat thrown over them. All that remains is a tangled mass of debris, blackened and ruined by the flames. Here and there the remnants of a dress could be recognised, but everything was burnt beyond repair. Flames also threatened Norman Bradley’s shop next door: the thin dividing wall was scorching and might have flared up at any moment. Firemen were kept fully occupied in preventing smouldering materials from catching again and were badly hampered because the insulation had been burnt off the electric light wires. Several received electric shocks before it was decided to have the current cut off at the main. 35 01 22

Credit: Mike Petty, Fitzroy Street Cambridge Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

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1937

British and Argentine Meat Co.

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1962 (29)

J H Dewhurst, butchers

Mrs Bassett