Tour 4 – Roads around St John’s Church, Hills Road, Queen Edith’s
Self Guided Tour of Blinco Grove area of Queen Edith's
Preface
The list below of links to the Capturing Cambridge website is a selection of the more interesting entries en route. Information about most of the buildings, and their historical occupants, that you will pass on this tour, and many that have vanished, can be accessed on the web site.
As with our other tours, suggestions of corrections and additions are most welcome and should be offered via the email address on the website.
Guide
Start at St John the Evangelist, Hills Road. Proceed south on east side of Hills Road.
221 Hills Road, home of Bidder family
Turn left into Cavendish Avenue
4 Cavendish Avenue, home of Beall and Waller families
8 Cavendish Avenue, home of Frederick Worsley, theologian
10 Cavendish Avenue, home of Owen Meredith, economist and friend of E M Forster
12 Cavendish Avenue, home of RAF sergeant pilot Stanley Wallis. Died May 1940.
18 Cavendish Avenue, described in Pevsner
13 Cavendish Avenue, home of Charles Wood, banjo maker and composer
20 Cavendish Avenue, J D Atkinson worked as a searcher for missing wounded in WWI
22 Cavendish Avenue, home of the Smyth family who moved to 11 Luard Road some time after 1911. They lost their son Gerald flying for the RAF in 1918.
15 Cavendish Avenue, home of the Cockerell family
17 Cavendish Avenue, home of Frederick Oldham, umbrella maker
28 Cavendish Avenue, home of the Doggett family, WWI volunteer nurses
21 Cavendish Avenue (Hinton Lodge) was in 1911 listed as 100 Blinco Grove against the wishes of the owner
30 Cavendish Avenue, home of Gustavus Schneider, theologian
32 Cavendish Avenue, home of Anderson family who lost their son Martin killed action in 1917
Turn left into Baldock Way
91 Blinco Grove, sweet shop (site of)
98 Blinco Grove, home of Naylor family and their jackdaw
65 Blinco Grove, home of Plane family and Charles Bowyer who was killed in action in 1916
84 Blinco Grove, home of Baldock family
76 Blinco Grove, home of Josiah Bowyer
74 Blinco Grove, home of Sgt. Maj. Henry Huckle, died on first day of Battle of the Somme
Turn right into Rock Road
Turn right into Hartingdon Grove
68 Hartington Grove (corner with Rock Road), site of Hobdays Nursery
64 Hartington Grove, laundry
63 Hartington Grove, Dorothy Sanders reminisces
71 Hartington Grove, The Research Hospital
Hartington Grove Quaker Meeting House
110 Hartington Grove, the Aplins reminisce
160 Cherry Hinton Road, the corner shop
Turn left into Cherry Hinton Road
152 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Vale family
150 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Gamlen family
146 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Wilson family
159 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Cowell family
Cherry Hinton Constitutional Club
Henry Donnex, cattle dealer and colourful character
147 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Doe family
140 Cherry Hinton Road, Lt Joscelyn Rawes killed in action 1916
145 Cherry Hinton, a description of life in Cherry Hinton Road in the 1960s
136 Cherry Hinton Road, Eagle Cottage, discussion of age of the cottage
139 Cherry Hinton, George Bowyer, Honorary Freeman of Cambridge
114 Cherry Hinton Road (site of), Lt Charles Bedwell killed in action 1918.
123 Cherry Hinton Road, Private George Porter, killed in action 1916
115 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Fred Drake, herbalist
107 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Roy Swann, RAF, killed in 1942.
106 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Burr family
91 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Onyett and Asbury families
88 Cherry Hinton Road, WWII reminiscences
72 Cherry Hinton Road, home of James Robert Cullin, artist, killed in action 1916.
77 Cherry Hinton Road, home of John Condor, builder and champion of allotments
66 Cherry Hinton Road, The Rathmore Club
Turn left into Rathmore Road
36 Rathmore Road, home of Charles Zeigler, law academic
30 Rathmore Road, home of Herbert Furniss, killed in action in 1918
10 Rathmore Road, home of Lewis Anderson, stained glass artist and distinguished soldier in WWI, also of V W Sagon who died in 1917.
8 Rathmore Road, home of L Corporal Laurence Austin, one of the youngest recipients of the D.C.M. in 1915
175 Hills Road, home of Frederick Morley, pawnbroker
Turn left on to Hills Road
Trumpington House Lodge (on the west side of Hills Road set back from the road)
178 Hills Road, Trumpington House
181/3 Hills Road, built by Kett family
Guy Harlings (exact location uncertain), home of George Guy Butler, doctor awarded MBE in WWI
187 Hills Road, home of Alfred Haddon, anthropologist
189 Hills Road, former St John’s vicarage
207 Hills Road, home of Kerridge family
Return to St John’s Church
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