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A grey pub building stands next to a two-story residential house built of yellow and red brick on a narrow Cambridge street.

26 Gwydir Street

26 Gwydir Street, Alpha Cottage

History of 26 Gwydir Street

1871 Alpha Cottage, unnumbered

John Cassidy, 59, Chelsea Pensioner, b Ireland

E S Cassidy, wife, 45, b Middlesex


1881

Walter Burrell, head, 30, printers machine manager, b Cambridge

Maud, wife, 26, b Cambridge

Lilian, daughter, 3, b Cambridge

Mable E, daughter, 1 m [?], b Cambridge


1891

Thomas Wedd, 26, bricklayer, b Bassingbourn

Elizabeth, 28, b Berks

Ethel E V, 2, b Cambridge

Archibald, 9 mos, b Cambridge

Annie M, niece, 5, b Bassingbourn

Gertrude L, niece,16, b Bassingbourn


1901

William Carter, 38, tailor, b London

Annie, 39, b Cambridge


1904 Alpha Cottage

Carter, tailor


1911

James Carter, 48, tailor, b London

Annie, 50,b Cambridge


1913

William James Carter, tailor


1939

Bernice V Goody, b 1895, cabinet maker incapacitated

Clarice K Goody, b 1895, dress maker and tailor


1962

Bernice V Goody

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