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Brooklands (English Heritage), Brooklands Avenue
History of Brooklands
In 1825 Richard Foster, a partner in Foster’s Bank of Cambridge, bought Brooklands Farm and its lands from James Burleigh. He built himself a new house called Brooklands House in 1827 and he placed his house in the north-west corner of his estate and enclosed over five acres of land as a garden and parkland. Brooklands Avenue was at this time merely a drive way which had a lodge house at the junction with Hills Road. A second drive ran northwards to Trumpington Road where there was a second lodge (Brooklands Lodge) which still survives within the Botanic Gardens. (taken from Brooklands Avenue – Conservation Area Appraisal Cambridge City Council June 2013)
Pevsner (Cambridgeshire p.329) writes of the house: ‘Sober white brick, with sober extensions to the E, so that the garden front has nine bays including the off-centre bow. In 2002 the stables to the N were converted by van Heyningen & Haward, with a glass-walled link back to the house.’
1841
Richard Foster, 58, brewer
Sophia, 55
Richard S, 33, independent
Edward, 29, brewer
Mary Sophia, 27
Sophia, 19,
Emery Cruchly, 20, servant
Mary Covill, 30, servant
Rebecca Morley, 26, servant
Ann Reeve, 18 servant
1843
1851
(Trumpington Road Brooklands)
Richard Foster, 68, owner of house and land, b Beds
M S Foster, daughter, 37, b Cambridge
S Foster, daughter, 29, b Cambridge
R S Foster, son, 43, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Foster, visitor, 30, b Cambridge
W Crutchley, servant, 30, b Cambridge
Mary Covill, servant, 38, b Cambridge
Ann Burgess, servant, 23, b Haddenham
Sarah Wright, servant, 33, b Histon
1861
Brookland House
George Ebenezer Foster, 49, banker treasurer magistrate, b Cambridge
Elizabeth,45, b Herts
Agnes E, 22, b Cambridge
George E, 21, bankers clerk, b Cambridge
Charles K, 19, merchants clerk, b Cambridge
Alfred W, 14, b Cambridge
Walter K, 11, b Cambridge
Arthur G, 7, b Cambridge
Edward Rawlings, visitor, 33, merchant and banker, b London
Ann Turner, servant, 38, b Teversham, cook
Emily Watts, 36, servant, b Cambridge, housemaid
Charlotte Moore, 25, servant, b Grantchester, nursemaid
Sarah Burgess, 27, servant, b Haddenham, ladies maid
Henry Cruchley, footman, 42, b Cambridge, butler
1871
?
1881
(Brooklands, Avenue Road)
George Foster, 41, banker, born Cambridge
David Norman, servant, 22, butler, born Cambs
Susan Michelson, servant, housekeeper, born Middlesex
Elizabeth Sneath, servant 34, cook, born Hunts
Elizabeth Savill, servant, 22, housemaid, born Beds
1891
[?]
1901
George Edward Foster, 61, banker, b Cambridge
David Norman, 42, butler, b Cambs
Elizabeth Sneath, 55, cook, b Hunts
Harriett Spall, 45, maid, b Suffolk
Sarah A Strauson, 32, housemaid, b Cambs
1911
Percy George Cunliffe Foster, 35, miller and corn merchant, born Cambridge
Nora Elizabeth Mary, 28, born Cambridge
Jane Cole Parnwell, servant, 46, cook, born Hunts
Sarah Rebecca Strawson, servant, 42, maid, born Norfolk
Daisy Pink, 22, housemaid, born Cambs
Clara Selina Starr, 29, house parlour, born Cambs
Lilian Iriene [?] Heath, servant, 18, kitchenmaid, born Cambs
1913
Percy George Cunliffe Foster
Albert Knefer, head gardener
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