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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.
1.221 Hills Road, home of Bidder family
Turn left into Cavendish Avenue
5.4 Cavendish Avenue, home of Beall and Waller families
6.8 Cavendish Avenue, home of Frederick Worsley, theologian
7.10 Cavendish Avenue, home of Owen Meredith, economist and friend of E M Forster
8.12 Cavendish Avenue, home of RAF sergeant pilot Stanley Wallis. Died May 1940.
9.18 Cavendish Avenue, described in Pevsner
10.13 Cavendish Avenue, home of Charles Wood, banjo maker and composer
11.20 Cavendish Avenue, J D Atkinson worked as a searcher for missing wounded in WWI
12.22 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.
13.15 Cavendish Avenue, home of the Cockerell family
14.17 Cavendish Avenue, home of Frederick Oldham, umbrella maker
15.28 Cavendish Avenue, home of the Doggett family, WWI volunteer nurses
16.21 Cavendish Avenue (Hinton Lodge) was in 1911 listed as 100 Blinco Grove against the wishes of the owner
17.30 Cavendish Avenue, home of Gustavus Schneider, theologian
18.32 Cavendish Avenue, home of Anderson family who lost their son Martin killed action in 1917
Turn left into Baldock Way
24.91 Blinco Grove, sweet shop (site of)
25.98 Blinco Grove, home of Naylor family and their jackdaw
26.65 Blinco Grove, home of Plane family and Charles Bowyer who was killed in action in 1916
27.84 Blinco Grove, home of Baldock family
28.76 Blinco Grove, home of Josiah Bowyer
29.74 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
31.68 Hartington Grove (corner with Rock Road), site of Hobdays Nursery
32.64 Hartington Grove, laundry
33.63 Hartington Grove, Dorothy Sanders reminisces
34.71 Hartington Grove, The Research Hospital
35.Hartington Grove Quaker Meeting House
37.110 Hartington Grove, the Aplins reminisce
38.160 Cherry Hinton Road, the corner shop
Turn left into Cherry Hinton Road
40.152 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Vale family
41.150 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Gamlen family
42.146 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Wilson family
43.159 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Cowell family
45.Cherry Hinton Constitutional Club
46.Henry Donnex, cattle dealer and colourful character
47.147 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Doe family
48.140 Cherry Hinton Road, Lt Joscelyn Rawes killed in action 1916
49.145 Cherry Hinton, a description of life in Cherry Hinton Road in the 1960s
50.136 Cherry Hinton Road, Eagle Cottage, discussion of age of the cottage
51.139 Cherry Hinton, George Bowyer, Honorary Freeman of Cambridge
53.114 Cherry Hinton Road (site of), Lt Charles Bedwell killed in action 1918.
54.123 Cherry Hinton Road, Private George Porter, killed in action 1916
55.115 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Fred Drake, herbalist
56.107 Cherry Hinton Road, home of Roy Swann, RAF, killed in 1942.
57.106 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Burr family
58.91 Cherry Hinton Road, home of the Onyett and Asbury families
59.88 Cherry Hinton Road, WWII reminiscences
60.72 Cherry Hinton Road, home of James Robert Cullin, artist, killed in action 1916.
61.77 Cherry Hinton Road, home of John Condor, builder and champion of allotments
62.66 Cherry Hinton Road, The Rathmore Club
Turn left into Rathmore Road
63.36 Rathmore Road, home of Charles Zeigler, law academic
64.30 Rathmore Road, home of Herbert Furniss, killed in action in 1918
65.10 Rathmore Road, home of Lewis Anderson, stained glass artist and distinguished soldier in WWI, also of V W Sagon who died in 1917.
66.8 Rathmore Road, home of L Corporal Laurence Austin, one of the youngest recipients of the D.C.M. in 1915
67.175 Hills Road, home of Frederick Morley, pawnbroker
Turn left on to Hills Road
68.Trumpington House Lodge (on the west side of Hills Road set back from the road)
69.178 Hills Road, Trumpington House
70.181/3 Hills Road, built by Kett family
71.Guy Harlings (exact location uncertain), home of George Guy Butler, doctor awarded MBE in WWI
72.187 Hills Road, home of Alfred Haddon, anthropologist
73.189 Hills Road, former St John’s vicarage
74.207 Hills Road, home of Kerridge family
Return to St John’s Church
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