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1881: Stationer’s Shop
Bernard Webb, head, 35, tin plate worker, b Sussex
Amelia L, wife, 31, news agent, b Sussex
Bernard G, son, 11, scholar, b Sussex
Laura, daughter, 6, scholar, b Sussex
Eliza A Prescott, niece, 13, scholar, b Sussex
Arthur Coleman, nephew, 13, scholar, b Sussex
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1891:
William Harvey, head, 43, general labourer, b Fen Ditton
Martha, wife, 44, shopkeeper, b Histon
Ann, sister, 46, cook, b Milton
Lilley Peacock, niece, 11, b London
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1901:
Henry S Scott, 57, general labourer, b Cambridge
Celia, 57, b Linton
Henry S, 23, hairdresser and tobacconist, b Cambridge
Celia, 18, factory hand jam making, b Cambridge
Albert, 12, b Cambridge
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1911:
Henry Stephen Scott, 33, hairdresser and tobacconist, b Cambridge
Ada Elizabeth, 32, b Cambridge
Harry William, 8, b Cambridge
Sidney Charles, 5, b Cambridge
Reuben Edwin, 3, b Cambridge
Ann Bull, mother in law, 76, widowed, b Cambridge
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1913:
Harry Miller, fruiterer and florist
Existed into the 1920s
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1916:CDN 4.8.1916: Mr A E Whitehead’s Employees: Mr Albert Edward Whitehead of 21 New Square wholesale and retail fruit merchant, florist and importer of foreign fruits, applied for exemption of four men – harry Edward Miller (40) 29 Gwydir Street, fruit shop manager; ……….. Mr Whitehead urged that it was difficult to fill these places which were important and required knowledge of the business. Miller was granted conditional exemption.
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1924:
Frederick and Helen (Ella) Biggs moved here and set up a dairy business with three milk rounds and three shops, 89 Sturton Street and Fitzroy Street. Their son Albert was born in 1925.
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1937:
A Biggs & Sons, dairy
See https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/gwydir/house29.htm
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1942: Following government legislation that there should be only two milk suppliers per street, Biggs and Sons were allocated Gwydir Street, Sturton Street and surrounding towns.
Dinah (horse) of A Biggs and Sons, dairy, in New Street at the Rodney Tap
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1952: Frederick Biggs died
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1958: Dairy business ceased
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1962 – 1970:
Mrs H F Biggs
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1982:
Warwick ‘ Wooky’ Hutton, art lecturer
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