Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • South Cambridge­shire
  • /
  • Harston
  • Back Forward
A wide, unpaved road in Harston lined with tall, slender poplar trees, fenced gardens, and low brick walls on either side.

High Street, Harston

History of the High Street, Harston

1911

Arthur Northrop, 45, groom gardener, b Harston

Elizabeth, 39, b Rampton

Abraham, 16, grocer assistant, b Harston

Percy, 13, farm labourer, b Harston

Arthur, 11, school and errand boy, b Harston

Edwin, 6, b Harston

Lucy Francis, 4 mos, b Harston

Oval portrait of a young man in a dark military uniform with printed text below including his name and military status.

Percy Northrop, Harston

Percy Northrop joined the Cambridge Volunteer Battalion when he was only 16. He died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1.7.1916.

https://great-war.ccan.co.uk/content/catalogue_item/northrop-percy-regiment-number-11th-battalion-suffolks-died-1st-july-1916-harston

Tags

  • Cambridge Volunteer Battalion
  • world war one

Projects

  • Harston

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Harston

142 Gwydir Street, Morton Cottage

41 York Street

19 Gwydir Street

Harston House

Manor House, Harston

41 Church Street, Harston

Harston Station

Harston bridge

Settlement site at Manor Farm, Harston

7 Church Street, Harston

Park House, Harston

93 High Street, Yew Tree Cottage, Harston

Hope Cottage, Button End, Harston