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46 – 60 Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

Last days of 46 - 60 Fitzroy Street

This row of buildings, demolished as part of The Grafton development, occupied the space between the Eden Baptist Chapel to Waffles.

These photos show their final years.

46 –
48 –
50 –
52 – Fitzroy Cycles
54 – Potter Products
56 – Cambridge Free Press
58/60 – Jackdaw

Street view of Fitzroy Street buildings featuring painted murals on the shopfronts and brick facades of numbers 46 to 52.

(right to left) 46, 48, 50, 52 Fitzroy Street (Museum of Cambridge)

 

A shop front with boarded windows painted with murals of cats, a person in a hat, and a violin next to a boarded-up door.

48 Fitzroy Street, 1980s, by Roy Hammans (the-golden-fleece.co.uk)

 

A street scene showing the Morley storefront, a parked white sedan, and a pedestrian walking across the road in Cambridge.

View of 48 and 50 Fitzroy Street from James Street c.1980 (MoC)

 

Two handwritten menu signs in a shop window state that the menu is limited due to the threat of demolition for Potters.

54 Fitzroy Street (Museum of Cambridge)

 

Two dilapidated shopfronts on East Road feature signage for Potter Products and Cambridge Free Press beside a road closed sign.

(right to left) 54, 56, 58, 60 Fitzroy Street, 1980s, by Roy Hammans (the-golden-fleece.co.uk)

 

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