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St Peter's Street, Duxford, east end in 1901 OS map

St Peter’s Street / High Street, Duxford

History of St Peter's Street

In 1901 on the OS map, there are about six buildings mark from the east end of St Peter’s Street as far as the Wheatsheaf (marked as PH). These are likely to have been the houses lived by those listed below.

1911

Jess Brand, 43, married separated, butcher, b Abington Piggotts

Charles, 17, b Duxford

Horace, 14, b Duxford

Horace Everard Brand, Duxford

Horace joined the Cambridge Battalion when he was only 17. He was killed on 1.7.1916.

Brand, Horace Everard. Regiment number 13772 11th Battalion of the Suffolks. Died 1st July 1916, from Duxford

Mary Bowman, 80, old age pensioner, b Duxford

Thomas Mynott, 54, factory labourer packer of paper, b Castle Camps

Eliza, 50, b Duxford

Thomas, 22, bakers assistant, b Duxford

Albert, 18, farm labourer, b Duxford

Winifred, 15, b Duxford

Albert Weeden, 47, blacksmith, b Sussex

 

 

Charles Smith, 60, roadman, b Suffolk

 

Louisa Rider, 56, widow, b Essex

 

James Spicer, 76, old age pensioner, b Duxford

 

Alfred Webb, 50, baker, b Duxford

Kate, 44, post mistress, b Ickleton

Alice Louisa Godfrey, 19, assistant post mistress, b India

Wheatsheaf

Charles Craft, 62, publican and bricklayer, b Surrey

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