45 (107) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

History of 45 Fitzroy Street

1913 (107)

Moon and Co, drapers

George Moon ran a drapers at this address. His son, Percy Moon, reminisced to Down Your Street in 1984. He remembered the two pawnbrokers near his father’s shop. “There was Norman Bradley at 113 and Frederick Morley at 101 and 102. The women used to go into Morley’s on a Sunday to get the suits out so that their husbands could go to church on a Sunday morning. On a Sunday morning the men would call at my father’s shop, saying ‘please, Mr Moon, can I have a halfpenny collar and a halfpenny dickie” (shirt front). In 1984 Percy Moon was living at 23 March Lane Cherry Hinton. he told Down Your Street about the legend of buried treasure. “Legend has it that there was a fortune buried in the cellar of our house in Fitzroy Street. The demolition boys had just about reached what used to be Moon’s [in 1874 it was Daniel Buttress, the confectioners] when I was in the street last week. Perhaps they should remove the floorboards with care.”

George Moon, Fitzroy Street 1915 (Cambs Collection)

1939 (45)

P Goldwater & J Pauline, drapers

1962 (45)

Pauline’s Dress Shop, ladies outfitters