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Two young boys side-by-side wearing matching black Kentucky Kid cowboy hats against a patterned wallpaper background.

Frank at his brother at South Street c.1961

South Street, Cambridge

History of South Street

South Street is a road that disappeared with the development of the Anglia Ruskin University site. It originally ran in between and parallel with Bradmore and Broad Streets.

High-angle view of terraced house rear yards, including brick outbuildings, washing lines, and a narrow path, in 1960s Cambridge.

Rear of houses in South Street, east end (photo by Mervyn Edwards, taken in 1960 from art department of Technical College)

A detail of a 1950 Ordnance Survey map showing the street layout and terraced housing blocks of South and Bradmore Street.

1950 OS map of South Street and Bradmore Street: the photo above was taken from black college building next to the capital S of ‘Schools” looking west down back alley between South and Bradmore Streets.

In 1913 on the north side were nos. 1-55 and on the south side nos. 2 – 64.

 

 

 

 

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