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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


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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