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66 High Street, Melbourn
Building behind 66 High Street, Melbourn
Listed building:
Mid C19. Brick front wall, now painted, and flint end walls. Low pitch roof now covered with asbestos tiles.
Adjoining at the rear is a range of outbuildings, including two storey C19 glass workshop.
Reset door with 1682 on frame. Two window panes inscribed ‘Tom King married – day of 1848’ and ‘King and Howard began work in the year 1839’ respectively. In 1842 the house was owned by George Ward, who also appears in the Kelly’s Directory of this time asa glazier and plumber.
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1901:
Susan Payne, widow, 71, b Essex
Jane Camp, 60, b Melbourn
John, 19, gardener, b Melbourn
David Huggins, 61, pig dealer and pork butcher, b Melbourn
Elizabeth, 63, b Melbourn
Rachel Wright, widow, 80, b Orwell
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1913:
Ernest Winter, 30, horse keeper carting contractor, b Melbourn
Emily, 21, b Melbourn
Anne Wade, 74, widow, old age pensioner, b Melbourn
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1939:
Annie Woollard, b 1867, district nurse disabled
Alfred J Harland, b 1889, coal carman (ARP warden)
Grace, b 1890
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Winifred Mumford, b 1917
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