39 High Street, Cottenham (photo E Smith)

39 High Street Cottenham

History of 39 High Street

Cottenham in Focus (2002) notes that this property was used as a bus garage between the First and Second World Wars. It housed the last bus from Cambridge at night which would leave at 7.10 am the next day.

[The locations of properties become more difficult to locate even relative to each other as one works back through the censuses. The assumption has been made that families are likely to be at the same location in consecutive censuses but this cannot be verified.]

 

1841 approx.

Thomas Rowell, 60, pig dealer

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1861 Piggotts Yard

Hemment Wright, 30, ag.lab

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1871 approx.

William Smith, 50, ag.lab., b Histon

[nearby]

Hemment Wright, 40, ag.lab.

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1881 approx.

Lucas Savidge, 29, chaff merchant, b Cottenham

[nearby]

Hemment Wright, 50, ag.lab.

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1891

Hemment Wright, 60, ag.lab

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1901

Hemment Wright, 70, roadman

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1911

Hemment Wright, 80, road foreman, b Cottenham

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1939

Horace Ward, b 1890, general ag. labourer