9-10 Bateman Street9 Bateman Street
History of 9 Bateman Street
1901:
Catherine J Knowles
Charlotte E, sister, 41, b Cambridge
Lifford [?] Hewitt, boarder, 19, bank clerk, b Surrey
Edith Filch, 19, servant, b Cambridge
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1911:
Catherine J Knowles, 53, single, private means, b Cambridge
Evelyn M Spearing, 25, assistant lecturer on English at Bedford College London, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Langford, 22, general servant, b Cambridge
Evelyn Spearing was educated at the Perse and Newnham College Cambridge. She served as a VAD nurse in France during WWI. Afterwards she became tutor in English at St Hughs Oxford University.
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1913:
Miss Knowles
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1962:
Wilfred J Ellis
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9 Bateman Street 1960s (photo from MFlude 2020)
9 Bateman Street 1960s (photo from MFlude 2020)
Post 1962 to 1990s:
The Flude family moved here in the 1960s, Henry Thomas, wife Barbara May and two sons, Robert and Michael.
Henry and Barbara Flude, c 1960s (photo from MFlude 2020)
Robert Flude c 1960s
Michael Flude c 1960s
The house was used to take in students for Trinity Hall in term time and as a bed and breakfast in the summer. There were six bedrooms, a bathroom with a huge cast iron bath, a basement with a kitchen area and lounge, and a huge old style pantry. There were servant calling bells and some rooms had maid call bell pulls. There were still big meat hooks in the basement pantry. There was also a beautiful carved oak stair rail. (Info supplied by MF in 2020)
Original fittings at 9 Bateman Street
Stair rail at 9 Bateman Street