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'Uncle Bert Cole and Grace dressed as Napoleon and Josephine. Photo by Arthur William Rutt.

148 Tenison Road, East Dene

History of 14 Tenison Road

1913

Montague Alliston

1939

George Herbert Cole, b 1868, costumier retired

Hepzibah Grace née Cornwell, b 1862 [sister of Henrietta who married John Aves in 1877]

‘Bert’ was a retired costumier with a shop on Regent’s Street near the University Arms Hotel. He was born in Cambridge in 1868; in 1881 he was living in Cheshire with the Holgate family, as a draper’s apprentice. His parents were Robert William Cole (1844 – 1881), a jeweller, and Jame Elizabeth Hawkes (c.1843 – ?).

1962

Mrs T Caldecoat

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