Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Sturton Town Cambridge
  • /
  • Sleaford Street
  • Back Forward

9 Sleaford Street, Cambridge

The History of 9 Sleaford Street

Number 9 Sleaford Street (Memorial Buildings) does not appear on the 1881 Census.  In 1891 it is number 5, and by 1898 it is known as “No.3 Memorial Buildings”.  By 1901 it has the modern numbering of “9 Sleaford Street”.

A dark green front door with the number nine, set into a yellow brick wall with white trim and a silver metal handle.

Taken by HW.

1891 (number 5)

James Ellis, 44, boiler maker, b. Poplar, London

Lizzie Ellis, 34, b. Hackney, London

Thomas Walker, lodger, 19, engine cleaner, b. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Davie Ellis, 9, b. Stratford, London

William Ellis, 8, b. Cambridge

Ted Ellis, 6, b. Cambridge

Kate Ellis, 3, b. Cambridge

Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911 UK Census, 1888 Town Plan of Cambridge, 1901 Revised Map of Cambridge

Projects

  • Sleaford Street

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.

Sleaford Street

24 Sleaford Street, Cambridge

10 Sleaford Street (1 Gladstone Terrace), Cambridge

14 Sleaford Street (6), Cambridge

44 – 36 Sleaford Street / Ainsworth Street, St Matthew’s Institute

16 Sleaford Street, (5) (13), Cambridge

18 Sleaford Street, Cambridge

22 Sleaford Street (2, 10), Rivar House, Cambridge

11 Sleaford Street, Cambridge

1 Sleaford Street, Ebenezer Villas, Cambridge

4 Sleaford Street, Cambridge