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
1861: Piggotts Yard
Hemment Wright, 30, ag.lab
1871: approx.
William Smith, 50, ag.lab., b Histon
[nearby]
Hemment Wright, 40, ag.lab.
1881: approx.
Lucas Savidge, 29, chaff merchant, b Cottenham
[nearby]
Hemment Wright, 50, ag.lab.
1891:
Hemment Wright, 60, ag.lab
1901:
Hemment Wright, 70, roadman
1911:
Hemment Wright, 80, road foreman, b Cottenham
1939:
Horace Ward, b 1890, general ag. labourer
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