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54 Norfolk Street
History of 54 Norfolk Street
1892
Birth of Florence Harben. In March 1981 she told the CWN:
My father was a hairdresser at the top of Norfolk Street [101 Norfolk Street]. He brought up 12 children – six lovely girls and six lovely boys – on a penny shave and 2d haircut.
Mrs Harben, whose husband was aNorfolk Street butcher, remembers; “We used to have a garden down Staffordshire Street where we used to kill our pigs.”
1901
Alfred Harben, 53, butcher, b Cambridge
Dora, 45, b Cambridge
Edward, 18, b Cambridge
Beatrice, 15, b Cambridge
Alfred, 12, b Cambridge
1913
Mrs Harben, butcher
1939
George W Barham, b 1879, railway labourer retired unfit
Elizabeth, b 1882
Ny F I M, b 1917, morning help
Pearl, b 1921, laundry hand
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