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'Uncle Bert Cole and Grace dressed as Napoleon and Josephine. Photo by Arthur William Rutt.

148 Tenison Road, East Dene

History of 14 Tenison Road

1913

Montague Alliston

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1939

George Herbert Cole, b 1868, costumier retired

Hepzibah Grace née Cornwell, b 1862 [sister of Henrietta who married John Aves in 1877]

‘Bert’ was a retired costumier with a shop on Regent’s Street near the University Arms Hotel. He was born in Cambridge in 1868; in 1881 he was living in Cheshire with the Holgate family, as a draper’s apprentice. His parents were Robert William Cole (1844 – 1881), a jeweller, and Jame Elizabeth Hawkes (c.1843 – ?).

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1962

Mrs T Caldecoat

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