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Occupation Road (west side)

History of Occupation Road (west side)

1861:

(1) Susan Curtis, 80, formerly laundress, b Westley

(2) William Chapman, 34, dealer in manure, b Cambridge

(3) David Dealtry, 61, porter, b Cambridge

(4) John M’Cain, 46, bricklayer’s labourer, b Ireland

(5) Christopher Jarman, 31, tinman and brazier,

(6) George Han Mayer, 39, basket maker, b Cambridge


1913:

SIDE ENTRANCE TO HAIGH’S CENTRAL LODGING HOUSE

2. John Bright

3. Mrs J Webb

4. Cecil Holmes, milkman

INFANT SCHOOL

Miss E Beamiss, head mistress

6. George Clements, groom and gardener

7. Walter A Brooke, brewer’s drayman

8. William Pearl

9. Herbert H Kitson

10. Ernest Newman, boot repairer

11. Albert Edward Wisbey, labourer

12. Mrs Mabley

13. Mrs Durrant

14. Herbert Jenkins, labourer

15. Harry Fordham

HERE IS NEW STREET


1939:

(1)

John Marshall, b 1878, labourer and hawker

(2) –

(3) –

(4)

Dorothy Armstead, b 1914, boot shop asst.

Harriet E Speake, b 1871

(6)

Kate E Clements, b 1885, factory hand jelly boiler

Henry C, b 1889, factory hand coffee roaster

(7)

Ada E Wilkin, b 1878, factory worker jam boiling

Hilda K, b 1910, school cleaner

?

(8)

William Dring, b 1857, retired general labourer

Eliza, b 1867

(9)

Alfred C Peachy, b 1895, labourer

(10)

Edith White, b 1907

(11)

George E Lowe, b 1886, waterworks labourer

(12)

Joseph H Ryder, b 1872, retired builders labourer

(13)

?

Doris M Causer, b 1910

(14)

Jane Shadbolt, b 1879, laundry worker

(15)

Albert J Cornwall, b 1909, porter

Daisy M, b 1916


According to Scouting records, the 3rd Cambridge Scouts met in the King’s College Club, Occupation Road from 1930s to 1950s.

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