5 West Road (New Road), West House / West House Hotel
History of 5 West Road
1871: New Road
Jabez Jay Chater, 36, nurseryman seedsman, florist, fruiterer and gardener, b Essex
[Jabez had purchased the Gonville Nursery in West Road in 1862. He died suddenly in his sleep 19th March 1873]
Harriett, 31, b London
Arthur Brand, 9, b Essex
Alice Harriett, 7, b Cambridge
Mary Eveline, 5, b Cambridge
Alexander, 3, b Cambridge
Emma Ann Duce, servant, 16, b Grantchester
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The Gonville Nursery was bought by the firm of Lyles and Speed who had a shop at 15 Petty Cury. A few years later, re-named the Newnham Nursery, it was acquired, with the Petty Cury shop, by James Sanders under whose name the seedsman’s business continued into the 20th century.
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1881: West Road
Charles Clay
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1891:
Clay
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West Road OS map 1903
1901: West House
Clay
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1911:
Mary Clay
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1913: West House
Miss Clay
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1939:
Alice Clay, b 1859, private means
Edith Farrington, b 1898, cook
Elizabeth Glover, b 1895, parlourmaid
Mabel Cox, b 1895, housemaid
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1962:
West House Hotel, Owen Tudor proprietor