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36 Telegraph Street (E Smith)

36 Telegraph Street, Cottenham

History of 36 Telegraph Street

According to Cottenham in Focus, 2002, George Hazel came to Cottenham in 1889 to keep a small shop in Garibaldi Terrace. He had previously worked as a tea blender in King’s Lynn. He moved to the shop in Telegraph Street circa 1900. He advertised his own blend of tea specially suited to Cottenham water.

1901:

George Hazel, 35, grocer and shopkeeper, b Ely

Agnes, 34, b Kings Lynn

Hulet H, 10, b Cottenham


1939: Percy Young inherited shop on death of George Hazel

1973: shop closed following introduction of VAT.

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